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...another broken 28 world freestyle and butterfly records. That spectacular string of victories continued as the XX Olympiad got under way last week. Spitz led a green but able young American team into the competition with an incandescent performance that ranks with the legendary triumphs of Jim Thorpe, Paavo Nurmi and Jesse Owens...
Long before he prowled the celluloid jungles, Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller was a national hero. To swimming idolaters of the 1920s, the faces of Babe Ruth, Red Grange and Paavo Nurmi paled before the image of the bronzed, high-cheekboned champion. Sportswriters later acclaimed him as the out standing swimmer of the first half-century, and rightly so. When he retired in 1929, Weissmuller held every freestyle record from 100 yds. to the half mile. And who could forget his showing in the 1928 Olympics, when he devastated his own Olympic 100-meter mark in the breathtaking time...
There he would have seen physical fitness at its competitive best. There announcer Charlie Dale might have pointed out over the loudspeaker: "You are observing college athletes in action who are running faster than Paavo Nurmi ever did in this country; doing things that Jim Thorpe would have considered impossible and Thorpe, as you know, was acclaimed the most versatile athlete in history...
...timer immediately thought of John Paul Jones, Norman Tabor, Paavo Nurmi, Ted Meredith, Bill Bingham and Bill Bonthron, and it was difficult to realize that today's collegians are running faster than those national and internationally famous milers and half-milers...
...FREEMAN of B. U. and Larry Rawson of B. C. will meet in a mile race at Brandeis tomorrow, and they'll be down around 4:15, as fast as Paavo Nurmi ran in the Stadium in 1925. . . . If Ted Kennedy wants an attraction he could invite those two milers to compete against Harvard's Mullin, Fitzgerald, Hamlin and Howard. Yale's Bobby Mack, IC4-A two-mile champion and a 4:10 miler, Laris and Jennison of Dartmouth, Eric Groon of Cornell and Charlie Buchta...