FIRST DEFEAT.
NURMI IN AMERICA. BEATEN BY ANOTHER' IjTNN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Jan. 26, 9.20 a.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 24. At Brooklyn, Paavo Nurmi, the .Finnish runner, met his first defeat in America to-night, when. Gunnar, a fellow countryman, led him to the tape by one yard in a two thousand yards dash, but both broke previous worlds records for the distance. _ Nilson had a hundred yards, handicap.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 January 1925, Page 5
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69FIRST DEFEAT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 January 1925, Page 5
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