S6E10 · The Race

Jerry dates a girl named Lois, though her boss is Duncan Meyer, an old high school rival of Jerry's, who Jerry once defeated in a track meet, though Duncan has protested the race ever since, and now wants a rematch. Elaine finds out her boyfriend is a communist, George contacts a personal ad from "The Daily Worker", and Kramer gets a job as a shopping center Santa.

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Jerry reveals that, in high school, he accidentally won a track race by jumping the gun unnoticed. Years later, his legend is questioned only by former classmate Duncan Meyer, who has reentered Jerry's life as his girlfriend Lois's boss. When Kramer is overworked as a department store Santa, Elaine's communist boyfriend Ned ( Todd Kimsey ) seizes the opportunity to convert him. George answers a personal ad in the Daily Worker, but word of his dealings with communists gets back to Steinbrenner. George vouches for Jerry by pretending to be out of touch since high school, but Duncan forces Jerry to race him in a rematch.

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