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...this meet will be an attempt by Luigi Beccalli of the University of Milan to make a new world record for the 1500 meters. Beccalli, the Olympic 1500 meters champion, established a world record of 3 minutes 49 seconds for the distance in 1932. This record held until Bill Bonthron shaved that mark to 3 minutes 48.8 seconds last June...
...Beccali who led Lovelock to the tape for a new 1500-meter record of 3.49 shortly after the New Zealand runner had beaten Bonthron. The later lowered this record by two-tenths of a second during the past summer, and Beccali's goal will be to regain the record...
...definite arrangements have been made for the American athletes who will furnish competition for Mussolini's men but it is hoped that Bill Bonthron, Princeton's bid for fame, will be an entry in the world record try. With such a feature tentatively scheduled the meet bids fair to attract many track enthusiasts to the Stadium...
When Jack Lovelock of Oxford and Bill Bonthron of Princeton ran a mile race at Princeton a year ago, Lovelock set a world's record and won by seven strides. When they met again for the same distance at Shepherd's Bush, England, in a Cornell & Princeton v. Oxford & Cambridge meet last week, there seemed scant justification for the British belief that Lovelock would repeat his victory. An operation on his knee last winter, which doctors feared might end his track career, had apparently slowed him down. In two starts this year he had not come within...
...Bonthron's customary strategy is to stay close behind a rival he fears, scare him into running fast, cut him down in the last 200 yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring rodeo and softened by rain, these two great milers let their second string men&151;Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock...