Word: nurmi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
After him sped Nurmi, ever creeping closer, closer; each yard that narrowed between them represented a quarter-mile passed; so, sucking the air, they circled into the last lap. Nurmi pumped his levers faster, came pounding up 'behind Nilson; Nilson put down his head, pounded faster too. Three times Nurmi attempted to pass, three times sturdy Nilson refused to let him. Nilson broke the tape one step in front, which meant that Nurmi had finished the race only ninety-nine yards ahead of Nilson. Nurmi's time, 5 min. 4-5 sec., bettered by 6 2-5 seconds...
...another race, Willie Ritola, "rival Finn," ran 5,000 metres in 14 min. 392-5 sec., thereby lowering the worlds' record of 14 min. 44 3-5 sec., made by Nurmi...
Members of the University will probably be unable to see the Crimson runners and the great Paavo Nurmi in action at the B. A. A. games next Saturday at the Arena...
...world's outdoor mark is 5 min. 26 3/10 sec., established by Paavo Nurmi...