Last week Edvin Wide, onetime Swedish schoolteacher, met Lloyd Hahn of Boston in a special one-mile race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Wide, conqueror of Nurmi, had freely predicted that he would lower the world's record for the event, leave Hahn thoroughly behind in the operation.
True to his promise, Wide led Hahn for the first nine laps. Hahn then passed the puffing pedagogue, won the race by a satisfactory margin of four yards. In so doing Hahn came within 1/5 second of the record, 4 min. 12 sec., held jointly by Nurmi and...
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