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...Wanamaker International Trophy, engraved with the names of Paavo Nurmi, Charles Hoff, Dr. Otto Peltzer, and Ray Conger was sent last week to be engraved with the American name (Stella Walsh) of Stella Walaciewicz, Polish girl sprinter, because she had set a new world record for women, 6 seconds, in the 50-yard dash at the Millrose Games in Manhattan...
...Suspicious." The executive committee of the Amateur Athletic Union sitting in conclave in the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, dwelt on the word. They were talking about Stanislaw Petkiewicz, Polish runner, beater of Paavo Nurmi, who had asked for permission to run in U. S. meets (TIME, Dec. 30). Had some promoter asked Petkiewicz to come over? Was he really interested simply in finding how law -his chosen subject-is taught in U. S. schools? Who were his friends? These questions, to the executive committee presided over by a serious man named Avery Brundage, seemed far more important than whether Petkiewicz could...
...this winter. Half-miler Tavernari and long-legged Hurdler Facelli of Italy, Joachim Buchner and Harry Storz, the German quarter-milers, and Sprinter Eldracher were asked. Among Finns, the invitations went to Harry Larva and Toivo Loukola, but not, for some reason, to Paavo Nurmi who, tinkering with an old automobile in his machine-shop in Turku, shrugged his shoulders and looked hard at his work when reporters asked him whether it were true that he had been feeling sick lately. Meantime, last week, down a gangplank in Manhattan strode another athlete who had received no invitation-Stanislaw Petkiewicz...
...Paavo Nurmi, famed Finn, began his second series of U. S. runnings 'by establishing in Brooklyn three world's records as follows: 3,000 yards in 7 min, 43 and 2/5 sec.; 2,500 metres in 6:58; and one and five-eighth miles in 7:23 2/5. He made these records in the course of running 3,000 yards with a stop watch in one hand...
Decathlon. Won by Paavo Yrjola of Finland, with total of 8053.29 points, world's record...