GREAT FINNISH RUNNER.
TEMPTING OFFER REFUSED. NEW YORK, Fob. 2. Nunni, the Finnish runner, has declined an offer of £SOOO for a three weeks tour !of tho United States. He does not desire to become a /professional. Nurmi is the third best "drawing card" in sport in America to-day. Ho gets a daily allowance of eight dollars ior expenses, while Babe Kuth, tho baseball player, earns tMXH) dollars a week, and every time Jack Dempsoy appears ho gets £100,000.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18940, 11 February 1925, Page 9
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79GREAT FINNISH RUNNER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18940, 11 February 1925, Page 9
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