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From 1915 to 1925, Joie Ray was considered the best mile runner in the world. In 1925 he tied Paavo Nurmi for the indoor record?4 min. 12 sec. Three years later he astonished everyone by making good his boast to become a marathon runner. He was on the U. S. Olympic team in 1928. Since then Ray's achievements have diminished, but not his confidence nor his odd, insistent courage. He competed in C. C. Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving...
Among the members of the team are Paavo Nurmi; Matti Jarvinen, holder of the world record for the javelin throw; and Achilles Jarvinen, Matti's brother, winner of the decathlon in the last Olympics...
...photographs revealed that the heart of Paavo Nurmi, Finnish distance runner, is three times normal size- which, in an ordinary person, would indicate grave disease. The Nurmi heart requires so much room to work in that it makes a quarter turn each time the diaphragm pushes up in respiration...
...Jules Ladoumegue, French middle distance runner: a world's record by running a mile in 4 min. 9 1/2 sec.-1 1/8 sec. faster than the record made by Paavo Nurmi in 1923 ; at Paris...
...Paavo Nurmi: a two-mile race at Helsingfors, Finland; in 8 min., 59 3/5 sec., a world's record (Nurmi's twelfth...