Word: nurmi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England the 1924 Olympic winner at this distance and Edwards of Canada, now at New York University, but who will run on the maple leaf team this summer, together with Martin of France and Peltzer of Germany, seem to Coach Farrell to be the probable leaders in this event. Nurmi might make a strong bid in the race, if he should run it and any one of the following might come through the winner or take places: Bocher of Germany, EK quist of Finland, Jorgenson of Norway, Martin of Switzerland, and Svenson of Sweden Besides Hahn the menon whom America...
...metre competition from Europe will revolve around Martin of France, who has done less than four minutes for this length. Wide of Sweden, Nurmi, and Peltzer of Germany who beat Nurmi the year before last. Bolize of Germany, Ellis of England, Posys of Poland, Jorgensen of Norway, and Sjorren of Sweden may any one of them come through among the leaders in the race...
...intramural track and field meet and Edvin Wide's attempt to lower the world's two-mile mark next Saturday give promise of presenting a spectacle even greater than Nurmi's so-called "race of the century" on the Stadium track two years ago. The University meet should bring into competition more Harvard students than any other single event in the history of the University, while Wide, if he meets satisfactory conditions both in regard to weather and competition, may be expected to negotiate the distance in better than record time...
Last week Edvin Wide, onetime Swedish schoolteacher, met Lloyd Hahn of Boston in a special one-mile race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Wide, conqueror of Nurmi, had freely predicted that he would lower the world's record for the event, leave Hahn thoroughly behind in the operation...
True to his promise, Wide led Hahn for the first nine laps. Hahn then passed the puffing pedagogue, won the race by a satisfactory margin of four yards. In so doing Hahn came within 1/5 second of the record, 4 min. 12 sec., held jointly by Nurmi...