NURMI AGAIN
WORLD RECORDS LETTERED Bv Electric Cable—' Copyright! Vnat and 'v r. r-nuu* New York, April 29. Running at Los Angeles Nurmi broke the 30-year-old record for the one and a-half mile distance,/ which, he fan in Grinin 42 2-5 sees., better than the record of Tommy Coniff. Nurmi also bettered the H mile and 2000 yards world marks in the same race. | Willie Plant, United States, walking champion, made a new world's record for the 25,000 metre time, doing the distance in 10min. 39sccs. The fonnor record was lOrnins. 47sccs., made by Frigcrio in Italy.
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 523, 2 May 1925, Page 6
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