Word: nurmi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tickets for Nurmi's exhibition meet will be issued free to each member of the University who applies at the H. A. A. today. These tickets will admit to sections 1 to 26 of the Stadium. General admission to the stands will be given Friday afternoon and the gates will be kept open until the remainder of the seats are filled...
Fame and glory which follow close upon the flying heels of the successful athlete are often accompanied by jealous criticism. Such is the fate of Paavo Nurmi who comes to the Stadium on Friday for his last great race in America. Although he has been absolved technically from the recent charges made against him, his name is still under the shadow of abuse. The cry of graft cannot be stilled as instantly as it was raised...
...When Nurmi first came to this country, it was hoped that he might promoto a closer harmony and a deeper mutual appreciation between the United States and Finland. Unquestionably he was at least partially successful in achieving that end during the first few months of his visit. His running was phenomenal. It brought forth a wave of enthusiastic applause never before extended to a track athlete. Then suddenly Nurmi became too popular. Audiences grew colder, newspapers less polite, and finally the petty track officials of the middle West tried to bar him from amateur competition...
...strange land, this must have seemed like a singularly unsportsmanlike proceeding. First to be reprimanded for every scheduled race in which sickness kept him from competing, and then to have his travelling accounts ransacked for petty graft must have been insufferable treatment even for the quiet and undemonstrative Nurmi...
Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock the ticket office of the H. A. A. will open to members of the University who wish to see Paavo Nurmi, the Finish track marvel, run in the Stadium on Friday afternoon. Two tickets in sections 1 to 26, which constitute the whole east side of the stands, will be alloted to each member in the order of application. These tickets will not be specified for any particular seats but for general admission to the sections...