Athletics at the 1920 Antwerpen Summer Games:

Albert Hill completed his 800/1,500 double with a comfortable win in which he ran together with countryman, Philip Baker, throughout. Joie Ray set the early pace, followed by Václav Vohralík, who had run the fastest time in the heats with 4:02.2. Hill and Baker held back until the bell lap when they took the lead together. America’s Larry Shields tried to pass on the backstretch, as Ray faded. Baker fought off Shields, allowing Hill to pull away on the final stretch. Philip Baker, a Quaker pacifist, later known as Philip Noel-Baker, became a well-known peace activist and proponent of nuclear disarmament in the 1950’s. Noel-Baker was instrumental in the formation of the League of Nations, helping to draft its Covenant, and was briefly the assistant to the secretary-general of the League, Eric Drummond. He served in the British Parliament for 36 years and for his efforts, in 1959 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.