Last week a man skated one mile on ice faster than ever one mile had been skated before. Steel flashed and twinkled on the ringing surface of Lake Placid, N. Y. Crouched against the wind, their tighted legs pumping furiously over the glassy ice, champions raced together, cut crunching curvets as they carved around the corners, hammered down the long stretches with their long blades whining. Clas Thunberg, Finland's Olympic champion, nosed out Charles Jewtraw, pride of Placid, in the mile race, for which his time was world's record, 2 min. 38 1/5...
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