PROMISING ATHLETE
COACHED BY LOVELOCK There is a freshman.-, at OxforcL.W-ho looks as if lie is going to be what the Americans call a “stand-out” in athletics within the next two or three years. The boy’s name is J .E. Lockwood. Jack Lovelock, who lias been coaching him, says Lockwood, ii he. maintains his present progress, will be right- up in the Godfrey BrownKydney Wooderson class in a very -short space of time. Which, of course, is splendid news, says the Sunday Express, because Lovelock happens,to know the odd spot about athletics and athletes. The other day lie won three events in the Oxford-Cambridge Freshmen’s sports. His sprinting, hurdling, and, long jumping brought all sorts of praise from tlie people who are supposed to know about these tilings.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 130, 6 January 1939, Page 3
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128PROMISING ATHLETE Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 130, 6 January 1939, Page 3
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