Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, July 30 to Aug. 14. Olympic officials in the U. S. last week reiterated their intention of choosing the U. S. teams by trial competitions rather than, as was suggested, on their records in recent events. In Berlin, the International Amateur Athletic Federation voted to suspend famed Paavo Nurmi, pending an investigation of charges that he had become a professional...
...Venzke run his first races when he was a 16-year-old Reading millworker and later trained him at the Hill School track, foresaw his exploits this year. In the Millrose games last month, Venzke broke the indoor record (4:12), jointly held by Paavo Nurmi and Joie Ray, by four-fifths of a second. A week later, at the New York Athletic Club meet, he ran the fastest indoor mile in history-4:10. The outdoor record is 4:091/5, held by Jules Ladoumegue of France, who would certainly have run against Venzke in the Olympics...
...northward in 37.35 sec. and computed his average speed, subject to official confirmation, as 111.712 land m.p.h. In Manhattan- Joie Ray's greatest mile race was run in 1925. His time-4 min. 12 sec.-equalled the indoor world's record set ten days earlier by Paavo Nurmi. Lasi week Gene Venizke, a 23-year-old German-American of Boyerstown, Pa., who was unknown two years ago and no better than a steady pacesetter last year, beat a crack field in a mile race for the Wanamaker Memorial Trophy. His time, 4 min. 11, sec., became...
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...