Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-24
Nurni Heads Stars
In Track Meet at
Johns Hopkins Univ.

-Paavo Nurmi raced to triumph to-
night in a two mile race featuring
the Johns Hopkins-Fifth Regiment
indoor games but the phantom Finn
failed to hang up any new records in
spite of pace that forced four Of
his seven opponents to drop out.
Nurmi failed by margins of from
about eight to 20 seconds to displace
his own worlds indoor standards at
the five distances for which he was
| clicked in race that had its chief
feature otherwise in tho logged pur-
suit of the invader by Verne Booth.
lanky former Johns Hopkins distance
ace and ex-intercollegiate champion.
With Willie Goodwin Of the New
York A. c., national junior two-mile
titleholder. Booth chung to Nurmi's
| heels for the first miles, and when
| Goodwin withdrew two laps later
Booth gave gritty exhibition in an
attempt to keep close to the flying
Finn. Over the last part of the route
/ Nurmi opened a gap of about % yards,
but Booth, in the best showing he has
! yet made against the famous cham
pion, refused to drop back any further
until the last lap. Here Nurmi squirt
ed, but the best he could do was add
| about TO- yards to his advantage, fin
ishing SIS yards in front, while the
crowd gave Booth an ovation for his
game showing.
Nurmi was closed at the finish in
91S 4-5, we'll behind the spectacular
I two-mile record SIS is he set in New
York little more than a week ago.
Nurmi's victory brought to a climax
the meet which had for other features
a brilliant medley relay victory for
Boston Colleges crack quartet in a
race for the eastern intercollegiate
title, a 100-yard sprint triumph for
Jackson Scholz of the New York a.
c., 3000-metre walk win for Willie
Plant, American champion, and 500
metre victory for Sid Leslie Of the
New York A. c.
J. McHugh, Georgetown Univer-
sity Splinter, captured the 100-yard
open handicap, one of the early
features, in 10 seconds flat. McHugh
had a seven yard allowance. r. IL.
bartholomew, Penn State. handicap
ped at three yards. finished second,
and Z. E. Melton, Georgetown, five
and a half yards, third.
Mr.. Gorham declared that Ritola
had not come to the meet despite
the fact that his manager had accepted
$40 expense money. German also said
that he was contemplating a request
to Amateur Athletic Union authorities
| to investigate the running of Lloy d
Hahn, crack Boston miller. who drop
ped out of the Legion mile after run
ming less than three-quarters Of the
distance. He said that he offered to
submit his evidence in the Ritola case
to the registration committee Of the
Metropolitan Association.
Jackson Scholz, fleet-footed New
York Athletic Club sprinter and Olym-
pic 200-metre champion. captured the
100-yard dash but was hard pressed
to withstand the strong finishing chal-
lenge by H. II. Cumming. University
Of Virginia star, who was barely a
yard behind at the tape. Bartholomew
of Penn State finished third. Scholz
thine was 10 seconds fiat.
z Georgetown University carried of
major honors in the quarter mile open
handicap when l.. Estevez and G. East
ment finished first and second. with al
lowance Of 16 and IA yards, respec-
ltively. J. L. Thomas. University of
Maryland, handicapped at II yards
gained third place. The time was 81
seconds.
Sid Leslie Of New York Athletic
Club. raced to victory over four
middle distance rivals in a specia
500 metre race. Leslie broke the tape
five yards in front of Ray Watson
Illinois A. c.. with Ray Dodge. of the
same club, third. and Jimmy Connolly
Of Washington, fourth.
| Leslie was clicked in l minute s.
seconds. Alan Helffrich, Pen State
flier, failed to toe the mark tonight
although he had been entered. Jack
Sellers, New York A. c., dropped Out
on the last lap.
II Georgetown University hung W
another victory when f. Swinburne
and S. Barrow, with handicaps Of l.
and 81 yards, respectively, landed
first and second places in the son
metre open handicap. z. 3 Beck Il
Lafayette college. with 30 yard al
lowance. was third. The time was
1.57 40.
Willie Plant. American walking
champion. stepped to a decisive ricto'
ry in the 3000-metre handicap heel and
toe event, but his time of 1888 was
more than SO seconds slower than his
indoor standard.
Boston College captured the one and
,seven-eighths mile medley relay race
for the eastern intercollegiate indoor
championship by decisive margin
with Penn State second, Lafayette Col.
lege third. and Pennsylvania, the re.
naming entry. fourth. Time, 1874 2-5