Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
.3,OII)-y YARD EVENT
|SEASY FOR FINN
Shows Old Skill in. Victory.
Kennedy of Georgetown
Takes Thousand"

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January l9.-Paavo
Nurmi, Finland's flying phantom, gall
loped to an easy victory in the first
start of his new American campaign,
understanding fair field to win $1,000
yard special race at the Brooklyn Col
lege track meet at the 18th Regiment
Arn1ory here tonight
The time, TAB Us, was announced
as new world record. although no Of
fetal mark for the distance is recog-
nized.
The best time on the books was made
by Nurni nearly four years ago when
he covered the distance in 7:45 3-5 at
Baltimore.
Owe Anderson, another Finn, who
makes his home in New York, finished
second, 100 yards behind. beating out
Gus Moore. national cross country
champion. who kept the pace with the
peerless Paavo up to the last half mile.
Fast Early in Race.
Four years apparently have taken
little from Nurmi's speed at distances
over a mile. His time at the first point,
1000 meters, was is seconds slower
than the record. and at mile and
quarter he was about the same distance
away. At IL miles he was only sec
onds away from the record, while the
last three times were announced as
new records-6:58 for $500 meters,
1923 2-5 for is miles and TAB 2-5 for
5000 yards.
At the start Moore went out ahead
with Irving Totten of the Millrose
A. A., New York, second, and Nurmi
third.
Paavo jumped the leaders before the
end of the first. lap and set his own
to close to the worlds best marks at
every point where the watches were
snapped.
From the second lap to the last half
mile Moore followed at Nurmis heels,
matching stride for stride yard or two
behind On the fifth lap Moore shot
his bolt, drawing up almost to even
terms for an instant before Nurrni let
out his speed enough to hold him off.
The Negro cross-country star found the
going hard after the first 2 miles and
dropped back rapidly after his failure
to go into the lead.
With four laps, half mile, to go,
Nurmi speeded up his pace. gaining 10
yards on each round of the track. AT
the start of the final lap he caught up
Anderson overlook the rapidly weaken
ing Moore to go into second place.
Hogan Runner Scores.
James Kennedy of Georgetown won
the Brooklyn College thousand. first of
the indoor track seasons traditional
events.
Kennedy finished only a few inches
ahead of Sam Martin of the Boston A.
A., with Phil Edwards, star of the New
York University and Canadian Olympic
teams, third, about 2 feet farther
back.
The time was slow, 2 minutes 20 2-5
seconds.
Hal Cutbill, the Plying Parson" Of
Boston, who was the only runner ever
to win the event twice, took fourth
place some distance back. Edwards
jumped into the lead at the start and
set an easy pace up to the final lap
where Martin went after the lead.
The two battled it out around two
turns before Kennedy came up to take
advantage of their struggle and beat
them out in the thrilling finish.
Joe Hickey. competing unattached.
won the 2-mile handicap race. T.
E. Bailey Of the New York A. C.. was
second. Both started from the 75-yard
mark Joe Hagen. Columbia cross
country star, who started from scratch,
took third place. The time was $50.
Wildermuth Is Second.
Bob McAllister, New York's flying
cop. who is trying a comeback cam
paign. from the retirement he went into
after the Olympic games, won the 100
meter dash of the sprint series. In the
last 80 yards he pulled away to beat
out Karl Wildermuth of Georgetown.
Jim Daley of Holy Cross took third, and
Jimmy PappaS, former Princeton star
running for the Newark A. c.. was
fourth. McAllister made the fast time
of ii seconds.
McAllister won the sprint series by
taking first place in the 100, after fin
ishing second to Wildermuth in the
75-yard event. The point total for the
flying cop was IA.
The Georgetown star slipped badly
in the final race. finishing last. while
Jimmy raley. Holy Cross star. took
second. The total for Wildermuth was
IL points.
Daley was third with nine points
from a second. a third and a fourth.
The speedy Holy Cross aggregation
Of CheniS, Perry, Tierney and Klunl-
bach won a mile college relay. run
ming it in 3:37 is. Boston College
was a close second with Georgetown
third.
Bernie McCafferty. Holy Cross fresh
man star. scored an easy victory in the
440-yard invitation. He ran the dis
tance in 81 seconds, to beat Oliver
Prcudlock of the Newark A. c. by
about 10 yards at the finish. Cecil
Cooke. former Syracuse star. now rep
resenting the Saiem-Cresccnt A. C..
New York. was third.