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...socialite crowd (20,000) in Meadow Brook's robin's-egg blue stands was still shouting when the teams rode out for the last chukker. West was still flabbergasted, East too tired to do much more than defend its goal. Score: East 10. West...
...derelict eyes; "After" was the apotheosis of dapper, life-conquering assurance. At the Yankee Stadium, New York City, last week, Paavo Nurmi reversed the parable which has long been so excellently illustrated in the contrasting personalities of Before, of After. He appeared in his sweater of robin's-egg blue to run against Alan Helffrich in the half-mile special of the Finnish-American...
...field, passed Nurmi, Higgins, opened up a lead of ten yards. The crowd roared. Nurmi plodded on. One lap, two laps. His levers began to pump a little faster. Ray was tired. Suddenly Ray, suddenly Hahn, heard a great roar that was not for them. The robin's-egg shirt had begun to move. Hahn, Ray, saw it go past them, round the turn, into the last lap. Six yards from the tape, Nurmi looked over his shoulder. He saw Ray, swaying, agonized, fighting to take second place from Hahn. He slowed down, stepped through the tape...
...Metres. The track in Madison Square Garden has eleven laps to the mile (approximately 34 laps to the 5,000 metres). Willie Ritola, brother Finn, old rival of Nurmi, took the lead. At his heels came the flying robin's-egg jersey. Lap after lap the two circled, the field after them. Two laps from home Nurmi sprinted, left a gap of 5 yards, widened it to 10, to 15. Gamely Ritola hung on, his face twisted like a mask of torture, but this time Nurmi did not turn to look. Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon...
...robin's-egg shirt that moved...