NURMI STARTS SECOND AMERICAN INDOOR INVASION WITH FAST TWO MILE RUN
JETTING 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 Euro pea n 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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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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202NURMI STARTS SECOND AMERICAN INDOOR INVASION WITH FAST TWO MILE RUN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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