Word: lovelock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wooderson is a frail-looking London solicitor whom the British fondly call "Leather Legs." Main chance U. S. runners have at his three world records is over the ultra-fast cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, where Cunningham, Ben Eastman and New Zealand's Jack Lovelock all set previous world records...
...game in three years, but by something which Princeton's enterprising Athletic Association had arranged, in place of a brass band, to entertain the customers between halves. It was an all-star mile race in which the No. 1 entrant was New Zealand's famed Jack Lovelock, Oxford medical student and Olympic champion, stopping off on his first trip home in six years...
Around the track, Princeton authorities thoughtfully posted announcers to tell the runners how fast they were going. This was to make it easy for Lovelock to set a new world's record. When the race was over, Lovelock had not only failed to set a new record, but he had also failed to win. A brave spurt at the finish left him five yards behind Kansas' Archie San Romani, whose excellent but non-record-breaking time was 4:09. Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, whom Lovelock last month rated the best in the world, finished third...
Cunningham is now in Boston, training for his race with Jack Lovelock on October 3rd between the halves of the Princeton football game. Jaakko hopes to get off to a good start Tuesday with plenty of candidates for the coming season promises a lot of competition for his runners...
...Lovelock's time was 3:47.8, a new world's record by a round second. The next four finishers-Cunningham, Beccali, San Romani, Edwards-broke the Olympic record of 3:51.2. In his dressing room, Lovelock coolly admitted he had known that incorrect placing of the starting line had cheated him of three yards, had not considered it worth calling to the attention of officials. Asked why he had looked back and slowed down at the finish, he said: "I didn't hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could...