Between Halves

First football game of the year in Princeton's Palmer Stadium usually attracts a crowd of 5,000. Last week, eight times that many people watched little Williams beaten, 27-to-7. The increase was caused not by the fact that Princeton's football team had lost only one game in three years, but by something which Princeton's enterprising Athletic Association had arranged, in place of a brass band, to entertain the customers between halves. It was an all-star mile race in which the No. 1 entrant was New Zealand's famed Jack Lovelock, Oxford medical student and Olympic champion, stopping off on his first trip home in six years.

Around the track, Princeton authorities thoughtfully posted announcers to tell the runners how fast they were going. This was to make it easy for Lovelock to set a new world's record. When the race was over, Lovelock had not only failed to set a new record, but he had also failed to win. A brave spurt at the finish left him five yards behind Kansas' Archie San Romani, whose excellent but non-record-breaking time was 4:09. Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, whom Lovelock last month rated the best in the world, finished third.

Like two other famed U. S. milers, Bonthron and Cunningham, San Romani's running career was stimulated by a serious leg injury in his childhood. When he was six, a truck crushed his leg. Doctors considered amputation. A onetime coal miner, San Romani first came to notice last year, when he won the National Collegiate mile in California. Last summer he beat Bonthron and Venzke in the A. A. U. 1500-metre championship. Now 24, a senior at Kansas State Teachers

College, he plans to teach music when he graduates next spring. On trips like last week's he carries two cases--one for track clothes, one for his cornet. Doctors are interested in his slow pulse--44 at rest, 60 after mild exercise.

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