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Tibbetts is entered in the Mayor Curley invitation mile, a distance better suited to his stride than the half. The mile race is due to be fast since Lloyd Hahn, Leo Larives, and Ray Dodge are entered...
...around in their clubs, drinking their whiskeys and sodas. Every now and then, someone would stride to the ticker and a chorus would call "What's the news?" The news was invariably bad, but the old gentlemen were always more hopeful after another whiskey and soda...
...Manhattan race was a 2,000-metre handicap over a flat (unbanked) track. Off sped Nurmi, round and round, after runners who had started many yards ahead of him. Twice, on the sharp turns of the track, he slipped, lost his stride, yet when he broke the tape, he broke also the world's indoor* record for this distance, his time 5 min. 33 sec. After him panted Gunnar Nilson, who had started with a 125-yard handicap...
...Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his right hand, he carried the little watch by which he timed his stride. He disdained, at the start, the conventional crouch. Ray (Illinois A. C.) and Hahn (Boston A. A.) both got away from the pistol before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept in the rear; when the others had settled into a file, he jogged...
...long legs stride into a mews. Before him bulks the British Museum. Says he: "There is no escape from pantheism, and from a creed which, if not pessimistic, is without hope for the future and without consolation in the present, unless we abandon the doctrine of equivalence between God and the world, and return to the theory of a creation by a God who is, in His own being independent of the world and above...