ATHLETICS.
ACSTHALIAN AND N.Z. CAUI.E ASSOCIATION NEW YORK, April 29. Running at 1.0. s Angeles. Nurmi, the j inn. broke ihe thirty-year-old record for the U miles distance, wliieh lie ran in -is minutes forty-two and two tilths seconds, or four seconds better than the record ol Tommy ConefT. Nurmi also bettered the If mile and the two thousand yards world marks in the same race. Willie Ulant. the United States walking champion, made a new world s record. for the tweuty-fivo thousand metro distance in ten minutes 39 secs. The former record was ten minutes 47 -oes, made by Frigcrio in Italy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1925, Page 1
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