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CUNNINGHAM THREAT TO LOVELOCKHECAM (JUT- HIS MARVELOUS'07 b WORlDRECORDFOR THE WLEUn n«*% brit\lh miler ajmsTo COME ClObE To a4 minute mile whenHE RAC£b AbAlWbT TME AMERICAN, GlEnNcunninham, in BerlinTHE 9AMtLOVtUXK.BY BILL BRALCHEBNEW YORK, Juiy 21.—Jack Lovelock’s 4:07.6 mile was the climax of a turbulent track season in America. But another great race is brewing now, and the result may be an anti-climax.Lovelock could have run that mile faster, he says, if he had been pressed during part of the race in which he was just loafing along. The New Zealander didn’t turn on full steam in the backstretch.Over in Europe we have a young man from Kansas named Glenn Cunningham who is touring the boulevards and burning up the cinder strips. On the strength of this lad’s 4;09.8 mile, he ought tofurnish just the kind of competition that Lovelock needs.* * *A meeting of these two milers is tentatively projected for Berlin nextmonth, on the theory that man is not unlike a race horse which tapers off somewhat after top form is reached, Lovelock is likely to find the Kansas Cyclone a handful of trouble.Lovelock, who jogged halfway around the track for exercise after his marvelous mile, left the impression on critics who saw him that he can do better, several seconds better, than 4:97.5. He must have the help of ardent competition to do it. The ambitious Cunningham, holds the SCO and 1500-meter championships by virtue of his defeats of Hornbostel, Mangan and Gene Venzke, and needs only a victory in the mile for distance supremacy.Cunningham is the sort of runner who beats men who can run faster than he can, by which is meant he runs a great competitive race. Knowing what he has to do in a race with Lovelock, he will be ready to do hfs very best.It may sound like heresy to say that Cunningham can beat Lovelock, but if the New Zealander is not in tip-top form that may be thesurprising result.In this sort of contest both men may come nearer the four-minute mile, which still is a hazy dream.
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Jefferson City Post Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Fri, Jul 21, 1933
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