NURMI STARTS SECOND AMERICAN INDOOR INVASION WITH FAST TWO MILE RUN
SETTING a killing pace, and holding it with machinelike precision from lap to lap, Paavo Nurmi broke the hearts of six of America’s fastest distance stars at Boston last month in a two-mile indoor race, run in 9m 12s. The flying Finn rattled through the first mile in 4.27 4-5, took a glance at his stop watch, and set off again to breast the tape for the full distance threequarters of a lap ahead of his nearest rival. Nurmi finished full of running, had another look at his stop-watch, and shook his head, apparently dissatisfied! The same night, at New York, Edwin Wide, another European invader for the American indoor track season, slipped over 1,500 metres without being extended in 4m 3 1-ss; and a few nights later Percy Williams, Canadian Olympic star, won a 40-yard dash on American soil in 4 4-ss. New York critics hailed it as an auspicious start to the 20-year-old champion’s world tour, which is supposed to take in New Zealand, next season. With Nurmi, Wide and Williams competing, America was looking forward to a great indoor winter season when the last mails left.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6857, 12 March 1929, Page 4
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