COATS OF ARMS DEVICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 6

COATS OF ARMS DEVICE

RUNNING SHOES QUERY

HUMOUR OF, LOVELOCK

(Reed. Aug. 27, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 26

Humorous exchanges between Air. YY. .7. Jordan, who is to succeed Sir James Parr as the New Zealand High Commissioner, and the champion runner, Mr. J. K. Lovelock, enlivened a New Zealand cocktail party given in honour of Mr. Lovelock at the British Empire Club. .Mr. Jordan said the young manhood of to-day, in practically everything, was the. superior of its predecessors. This was evidenced by the continually heating of records.

"I wonder whether the day will come when New Zealand will have running shoes incorporated in her coat of arms," Mr. Lovelock said. "I have been hearing talk about the younger generation for a lifetime. Let ns forget the younger generation." Sir Michael Myers congratulated Mr. Lovelock on behalf of the Rhodes Scholarship committee, of which Sir Michael is a member, and which selected Mr. Loveloclc. to go to Cambridge. "We chose a man we though Rhodes would have chosen,'' said Sir .Michael. "Mr. Lovelock to-day is the same modest iTentlenian we selected.'' "' Dr. W. K. 'Pornlt said that Mr. Lovelock's run in the 1500 metres, for which he set a. new world record at the Olympic Games, was completely planned out beforehand. He knew practically yard for yard what would happen." Nevertheless, Mr. Lovelock's performance was so magnificent that I nearly died from unbelief," said Dr. Porritf.