Might Have Outran Anyone Who Ever Lived
Received Friday, 7.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. The Heraid-Tribufte today published an editorial tribute to Jack Lovelock, the New Zealand Olympic champion who was killed by a subway train on Wednesday. The newspaper said Lovelock could run a mile faster than almost anybody. "Some people think he could have outrun anybody who ever lived. Lovelock'S feats lent substance to the dream of the fourminute mile still uhattained. Perhaps he might have achieved it if he had been pushed hard enough." A decade after his retirement his triumphs were so fresh in the memory that one could let A. E. Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young," stand as his epitaph: Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their hoftoftrs out; Runners whom renown outran, And the name died before the man.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1949, Page 5
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