By running two miles around a soggy cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, a lean, barrel-chested young man from Auburn, Ind. last week made himself the most talked about athlete in the U. S. The young man was Donald Ray Lash, 22-year-old junior at Indiana University. What made the feat remarkable was the time it took him to accomplish it: 8 min. 58.3 sec.
In 1931, famed Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8:59.6. That, except for Nurmi's indoor record of 8:58.2, made on a board track at Madison Square Garden in...
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