WORLDS RECORDS BROKEN
STOCKHOLM, 24th August. P. Nurmi, a Finlander, ran 15CO metres in 3min 53sec, and a mile in 4inin 10 2-ssec, both world's records.
The record "for 1500 metres was held by J. Zander (Sweden), his time, made in 1917, being •3miti 54. ]-10se>c. Tne mile record was held by N. S Taber (U.S.A.), hie time on.. 16th July, 1915, at .Cambridge, t'.S.A., beil)2 imin 12
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 8
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68WORLDS RECORDS BROKEN Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 8
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