ATHLETICS
NEGRO’ THREE RECORDS. IN SHORT DISTANCE EVENTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CHICAGO, June 11.: Ralph Metcalf, of Marquette University, a negro runner, has set three new world’s reco"ds, doing’ the hundred metres in 10.2 seconds, the two hundred and twenty metre’s in -20.5 seconds, and the two hundred metres in 20.2 seconds, and be equalled the hundred yards record of 9.5 seconds, in the National Collegiate trials. He probably will (represent the United States at the Olympic Games.
THREE QUARTER MILE RECORD. BROKEN BY LOVELOCK. . LONDON, June 11. The New Zealahd fUimw, • J: IS.' Lovelock, broke the thirty-seven year old world’s record Tor three-quarters of a mile at the Civil Servants Sports at Stamford Bridge. He did the distance in 3min. 2 l-ssec, after a brilliant run in which he forged ahead on the back straight. The track was measured, and it was found that Lovelock had run .nearly three feet over th'*ee-quarters of a mile. The Frenchman, J- Lapdoumergue, has done the three-quarter mile distance in 3min 0 3-ssec, but the International Federation has not yet passed the record. ' , ■ Lovelock started from scratch, and finished fourth.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320613.2.23
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1932, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
189ATHLETICS Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1932, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in