NURMI’S “GROUCH.”
TWO LAP-9 TOO MANY. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Paavo Nurmi, the wonderful Finnish distance runner, who created a sensation at the Olympic Games, is arranging a “barnstorming” tour through lo the Pacific coast. He returned from Chicago suffering from a- terrible “grouch” against the officials who raced him on a track, of 12 laps to the mile after he had made all plans for ten. That- Ray, the American champion, might have defeated him under conditions that’took him by surprise stirred Nurmi to the height of nervousness.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16649, 31 January 1925, Page 5
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