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Jack Lovelock breaks mile record
A cutting from the New York Sun newspaper, showing Jack Lovelock just after he had broken the world mile record at Princeton University on 15 July 1933, with a time of 4 minutes 7.6 seconds. It is one of many such cuttings in Lovelock's albums relating to this performance - in fact they take up a whole volume.
The cartoon describes Lovelock as the 'modern Mercury' and lists his time and those of the other five fastest mile runners. At the bottom it also claims that Lovelock held the world three-quarter-mile record of 3 minutes 2.2 seconds. But, in fact, he never did, as a faster time by Jules Ladoumegue had been previously ratified.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Reference: MSX-2247-058
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