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...Paavo Nurmi will probably oppose several University runners when he enters the B. A. A. meet to be held at the Arena on January 31, according to Jackko Mikkola, assistant coach of the track team and Finnish Olympic coach last summer...
Mile. Last week, on the indoor track of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Paavo Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his right hand, he carried the little watch by which he timed his stride. He disdained, at the start, the conventional crouch. Ray (Illinois A. C.) and Hahn (Boston A. A.) both got away from the pistol before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept...
...World's outdoor record for mile: 4 min. 10.4 sec., made by Paavo Nurmi...
...When the Finnish runners went to Paris, Paavo took his bathhouse with him. He said he would not be able to run well without it. He even wanted to bring it with him all the way to America...
Coach Mikkola expressed a hope that Nurmi would stay in this country till spring, but he denied that he had any information from Nurmi himself. "I am sure that if Paavo does stay till spring he will come to Harvard, especially since there is a Finnish bathhouse in Quincy...