WORLD RECORD

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 3

WORLD RECORD

MILE RACE FQR SCHOOLBOYS. ‘ TIMARU BOY’S GREAT RUN. (Per Press Association, Copyright). . ; 1 ; . TIMARU, October 28. V. P. Boot smashed Lovelock’s 1928 mile record of 4min 44 2-ssec in a special attempt ;ih tlie senior- championship race at; the T.ftiaru Boys' High School sports'this morning. Boot, was was unpaced after a circuit and a half, established a new record in the seftsational - .time . for. a schoolboy of 4min 26' 4-ssee. The lap times were 67sec/71sec, CSsec, 60 4-ssec. Earl .or in the week, Boot lowered Lovelock’s 880yds record of 2min 5 l-ssCc, clipping off 5 l-ssec, "doing the distance in 2niin. This afternoon Boot achieved further success when he lowered the record of 53fiec for the- 440yds by doing the distance in 52 ltssec. Boot’s mile fun entitled him to claim the world’s schoolboy record for the mile. Last year the Christchurch Technical College boy C. Matthews, registered. 4min !29sec for the mile" in a race in the North Island, beating the world-record established in 1930 by M. J, K. Sullivan, of Kelly College, Ireland, by o»e-f)fth of a second. Root’s tilire of 2min' for the half-mile is one and three-fifths of a second outside the world record made by W. D r Muirson, of St. Andrew’s School, England, in 1930. '• '