Word: lovelock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finish with a world's record of 4:06.7, he jogged 30 yd. up the track, turned around, trotted back to shake hands with Bonthron who had plodded in 40 yd. behind him. The last mile record (4:07.6) was set at Princeton a year ago by Jack Lovelock of Oxford. To see it broken by nearly a full second would have been enough, by itself, to make last week's track meet perfect. But ten minutes before, breathless spectators had witnessed the unexpected fall of another world mark. Stanford's Ben Eastman, who set a world...
...year Glenn Cunningham of Kansas University, who took up running after his legs had been so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again, beat Venzke. Last summer Venzke and Cunningham were joined by Bill Bonthron of Princeton, who finished second to Jack Lovelock of Oxford in the fastest' mile on record. Lovelock's time was 4.07.6, Bonthron's 4.08.7. In last week's Baxter Mile in the New York Athletic Club games Venzke, Cunningham and Bonthron were running together for the first time. Their contest promised the most exciting...
...best mile race of the year." Princeton's track coach, Matt Geis, thus called the turn three days before the sixth annual Oxford-Cambridge v. Princeton-Cornell track meet last week. In only one respect was Coach Geis's prediction awry. The race between Jack Lovelock of Oxford and William ("Bonny") Bonthron, Princeton's track captain-elect, proved to be not the best mile race of the year but the greatest of all time. The British team was already on its way to a final 4-to-8 defeat when Bonthron Lovelock, John Hazen (Cornell) and Forbes...
...Jack Lovelock's running of the mile was the one event of the afternoon which will be talked about in sporting circles around the world. The young New Zealander wearing the Dark Blue of Oxford jogged merrily through a mile race in 4 minutes 12.6 seconds, the fastest time over done in the Stadium or in the Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge meets. He did three grueling laps around the track politely paced by Horan of Cambridge. With the gun for the last lap he went off on a race of his own, and crossed the finish line some hundred yards...
...Lovelock's run was merely one of the six meet record-breaking performances of the afternoon. Stanwood, a former Bowdoin man, did yeoman service for Oxford with records in both hurdle events, Brown's pole-vault, mentioned before, was a record; E. E. Calvin '35, tenacious Crimson sprinter equaled the meet mark with a 9.8 second century run; Jackson of Yale beat out J. H. Dean '34 in the shotput for a clean record; E. I. David, diminutive sprinter clocked a record 220-yard run for the Light Blue; Mabey of Oxford ran a beautiful two-mile race...