JACK LOVELOCK KILLED

Chronicle (Levin), 29 December 1949, Page 5

JACK LOVELOCK KILLED

(N.Z.P.A.-

-Reuter.

Former Olympic Runner Falls j Beneath Train

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Received Thursday, 9.25 a.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The former Olympic champion riimier, the New Zealarxder, Dr. Jack Lovelock, was kilied by a subway train today. The police said that Dr. Love-. lock apparently suflered an attack of dizziness and ,-fell from the station platform in Brooklyn in frpnt of a Coney Isiand bound train. They added that his eyesight -was bad and that his glasses were in his pocket at the "time of the accident. Dr. Lovelock was on the staff of Manhattan's hospital for special surgery. He was appointed assistant director of the department of physical medicine in 1948. His wife, Mrs. Cynthia Lovelock, said he was coming home from hospital because he felt ill. Three cars of the eight-car train passed over his body before the driver could stop. The driver said he saw Dr. Lovelock' topple to the traeks, • but was .unable to stop the train in time to save him. Dr; Lovelock has not recently taken any active part in athletics, but was still keenly interested in them. Last summer he aeted as an oflicial at a meeting between the combined team of OxfordCambridge ' Universities against Princetbwn and Cornell. Dr. Lovelock met his wife, an American, while she was working with the United Services Organisation overseas. He was then a major in the Royal'Army Medical Corps. 'There are two ^children, Dr. Lovelock ran the world rejpord mile at Princetown, New Jersey, in July, 1933, beating Bill Bonthorn in 247.6 seconds.