JACK LOVELOCK HAS RETIRED
His final Decision Rumours were still flying around last month that Jack Lovelock, Olympic champion and world’s record holder at 1500 metres, was contemplating a return to the track in big athletic events
this summer. Ydu can take it from me, remarks an English writer, that these rumours have no foundation. Here are the facts: Lovelock, now a doctor with a house physician’s job at St. Mary’s Hospital, is far too busy to think of serious athletics. Two days a week and every third Sunday he is on duty for 24 hours at a stretch. On other days he must always be within call to attend to the needs of the 50 patients in his ward. Not much
room left for training here. True, Lovelock snatches odd hours to run round the track at Paddington just to keep his fat down, but the real business of hard training is out of the question.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21126, 27 August 1938, Page 16
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