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Show Paavo Is Best Track Runner According to Many Experts Who is the greatest runner of all time, asked a young footracer recently recent-ly of one of a group of veteran track fans and timers who were chatting about the ancient pastime in an uptown up-town club. And with virtual unanimity the answer was why Paavo Nurmi of course. No matter where the question ques-tion of ultimate supremacy in human racing is raised, the reply inevitably is Nurmi. The immortal Finn seems to have gripped the imagination of sport lovers both on the Continent and In this country, and even though he has lost much of the terrilic speed that -was formerly exclusively his, men the world over still speak of him as the finest runner ever to pull on a track shoe. At the present time, the quiet speed boy of Abo is concentrating his attention at-tention on long-distance running.-True he has negotiated the long Jaunts before, be-fore, and with characteristic success, but now it is a different matter. Winning Win-ning long-distance races was all part of a day's fun with Nurmi a few years ago, but time, that unbeatable rival, has convinced him that he Is no longer long-er the human paradox of yesteryear. |