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...Since Nurmi has definitely announced his intention of trying for the world mile record at the Stadium on May 22, the H. A. A. has made arrangements by which the members of the University, Harvard Club, and B. A. A. may have first choice of seats. Tickets will be given free of charge to all those members who wish to attend the race, and a certain section of the Stadium will be reserved for their use. The remainder of the Stadium will be open to the public free of charge...
...account of the weather the race cannot be held Friday, Nurmi will run after the Harvard-Princeton meet on Saturday. It has not been settled who will race against Nurmi, but whoever it is Major Moore declared it would not be a paced race. Nurmi's opponents will be handicapped so as to force the great Finn to his utmost...
...entirely up to Nurmi whether he runs here or not", Major F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., told a CRIMSON reporter last night. "He told me some time ago that he would like to try for the mile record on the Stadium track on the twentieth, but we have made no definite arrangements...
...Buffalo, Paavo Nurmi, who recently ate not wisely but too well of veal pie-and was defeated by Willie Ritola-partook of a modest snack, got into his running clothes, once more opposed Ritola in the 5,000-metre race. This time it seemed to be Ritola who was stricken. He fumbled at his side, strapped his belly with a belt handed to him by his manager, finished 120 yards behind Nurmi who was 14 seconds behind the world's record held by Ritola...
...Said jokesters, jape-makers: "Paavo Nurmi did not run!" (Paavo Nurmi is, as everyone knows, the famed Finnish runner, who in the past seven weeks has established 26 new world's records, competing...