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Haggerty should finish near the front of the handicap 600, provided the number of entries is not too great. When fifteen or twenty men try to run on a track eight feet wide with a turn every twenty-five yards, the men at scratch are faced not only with gaining distance but with fighting their way past greatly congested traffic...
...married and begin rearing a family without regard for the future of the children when he is twenty years old. The lawyer, doctor, educator, preacher, and business man cannot afford to marry and have a home before has is thirty. We thus give stupidity a tel-year handicap over intelligence. Civilization makes the world safe for stupidity. If we give the stuped man a better chance to rear children and multiply his kind than we give the intelligent to multiply his kind then the intelligent will vanish...
Last week, Nurmi ran in Brooklyn, N. Y., was beaten, fixed a new world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson...
...apples, a triple helping of oatmeal, a big cup of coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap meet. The famed express ended its run, the passenger, well-fed, well-rested...
...Manhattan race was a 2,000-metre handicap over a flat (unbanked) track. Off sped Nurmi, round and round, after runners who had started many yards ahead of him. Twice, on the sharp turns of the track, he slipped, lost his stride, yet when he broke the tape, he broke also the world's indoor* record for this distance, his time 5 min. 33 sec. After him panted Gunnar Nilson, who had started with a 125-yard handicap...