Sport: Lovelock Over Bonthron

When Jack Lovelock of Oxford and Bill Bonthron of Princeton ran a mile race at Princeton a year ago, Lovelock set a world's record and won by seven strides. When they met again for the same distance at Shepherd's Bush, England, in a Cornell & Princeton v. Oxford & Cambridge meet last week, there seemed scant justification for the British belief that Lovelock would repeat his victory. An operation on his knee last winter, which doctors feared might end his track career, had apparently slowed him down. In two starts this year he had...

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