Word: wooderson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bespectacled Sydney Wooderson, 124-Ib. Briton who holds the world's record for a mile (outdoors): a new world's record for a half-mile (1:49.2); at Hotspur Park, London. On the way, Runner Wooderson also broke the record for 800 metres...
...nine-months old daughter, went to Hanover, N. H. with the express purpose of running a 4:05 mile on Dartmouth's fast board track. This deliberate move was not wholly undramatic. The world's record of 4:06.4, set by England's Stanley Wooderson last summer, had been officially recognized by the International Amateur Athletic Federation just three days before...
...year-old colt: the 33rd running of the Hopeful Stakes, richest ($31,450 to the winner) race of the Saratoga season; by three lengths over a field of top-notch juveniles; before a closing-day crowd of 20,000; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Bespectacled Stanley Wooderson. London bank clerk: a special mile race in 4:06.6, breaking the world's record of 4:06.8 set by Kansas' Glenn Cunningham at Princeton in 1934; to become the first Englishman in 55 years to set a new world's record at that distance; at Hotspur Park, London...
...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 the world's record for 1,500 metres...
Every installment of the Olympic games produces at least one historic race. With considerable justice, track experts called last week's 1,500-metre final the greatest ever run. The field lined up without 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...