Greatest Mile "They should certainly do 4:10 and if they do not worry too much about each other, they should break Jules Ladoumegue's world record of 4:09.2. It is going to be the best mile race of the year." Princeton's track coach, Matt Geis, thus called the turn three days before the sixth annual Oxford-Cambridge v. Princeton-Cornell track meet last week. In only one respect was Coach Geis's prediction awry. The race between Jack Lovelock of Oxford and William ("Bonny") Bonthron, Princeton's track captain-elect, proved to be not the best mile race of...
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