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Seeking Divorce. From Paavo Nurmi, 36, famed Finnish runner: Sylvi Laaksonen Nurmi, his wife since May 1932. In Turku, Finland, Nurmi's birthplace, Mrs. Nurmi told reporters that he broke promises to give up the track, neglected his family to keep in training, complained that his year-old son's feet were too small for him to become a great runner...
Javelin Throw. The Finns, who since 1912 used to win all the distance races at the Olympics, did poorly this year, with pale Paavo Nurmi sitting in the grandstand. Three Finns who were particularly disappointed were the Jarvinen brothers, Matti, Karlo Werner and Akilles. They had often heard stories about the 1906 Olympics from their father, Werner Jarvinen, who won the Greek style discus throw that year at Athens. Matti Jarvinen, spectacled sporting-goods clerk of Davaro, won Finland its first event last week with another implement that old Werner Jarvinen had shown him how to handle. He threw...
...front after eight miles. Then the crowd at a street intersection saw Margarito Pomposa Banos, the Mexican, catch up and go past him. Five miles further on, Zabala was first again. At 15 miles another runner caught him. This time it was Lauri Virtanen, Finland's substitute for Nurmi. Virtanen tired as soon as he had the lead, quit the race. At 22 miles, Duncan MacLeod Wright, seasoned Scottish marathoner, passed Zabala and held the lead for two miles...
...Training at Los Angeles while he waited to see whether the International Federation would restore his amateur standing at the last minute so that he could compete with fellow Finns, pallid Paavo Nurmi hurt his leg. Dr. Paul Martin, Swiss middle distance star, pronounced it a pulled tendon, ordered complete rest for Nurmi...
Last week Paavo Nurmi arrived in the U. S., hoping to compete for Finland in the Olympic Games. The Finnish team was threatening to "bolt" the games if an official ruling, declaring Nurmi ineligible because of professionalism, were not rescinded...