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...never before met collectively. In the eight times that Princeton's Bonthron, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania have raced together, Cunningham has come home in front five times, Bonthron thrice. Bon-thron meantime has had a separate series with John Edward Lovelock, the little New Zealand medical student with a collection of blazers from Otago, Oxford and London Universities. With Lovelock, Bonthron has come out on top only once in four races. At Princeton in 1933 Lovelock lowered the world record to 4 min., 7.6 sec. Thereupon Cunningham at Princeton last year dropped...
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...
...previous appearances of Bingham as an official in the Palmer Stadium, world's records have been set by the athletes. The first occasion was the record-smashing mile of Jack Lovelock, British miler, in the Oxford-Cambridge meet held in 1933. Lovelock's time...
...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...
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...