Word: lovelock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salminen won their specialties, the 3,000-metre steeplechase, the 5,000 and the 10,000-metre runs. With U. S. victories in the sprints and intermediate runs, outside competition centred, as usual, on the 1,500-metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner at Los Angeles in 1932. The U. S. had Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani and Glenn Cunningham, all three good enough to beat Bill Bonthron, who held...
...Wooderson, who had been put out in a preliminary heat. Hitler reached his box just before the gun sounded for the start. While the murmur of the crowd gathered into a huge expectant roar, the field of twelve runners finished the first three laps with Ny leading, Cunningham second, Lovelock third. Then, still a good 300 metres from the finish, Lovelock began his amazing sprint. It carried him, a tiny light-footed figure in loose, black shirt and shorts, past the leaders and down the stretch in such a burst of speed that Cunningham, famed for his own finishing kick...
...Kathleen Parlow, who suggested the first trip East. Indomitable Mrs. Edwards was easy to convince. Money was scarce but there was the 10-year-old, seven-passenger Marmon and Son Carl, 16, to drive it. The Edwards motored East to the Berkshire Festival, motored back again as far as Lovelock, Nev., where the Marmon caught fire. Of the baggage nothing was saved except Marjorie's violin...
Although in England the race aroused greater sporting interest than the Baer-Braddock fight punctilious, curly-haired Jack Lovelock was making no promises. "My condition does not displease me," he admitted. But he deplored anticipating records on the ground that "it might stimulate too high a degree of expectancy in the public." He said he preferred the "British race": beat the other fellows and let the records go hang...
...time the gun rang out for the last lap it looked as if the long office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham, whose stocky figure suddenly went dead beat. Thereupon, "Bonny" Bonthron began pumping his hairy legs like pistons, passed Cunningham too. But by that time Lovelock had crossed the tape. Time: 4 min., 11.2 sec., no record...