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...four-minute mile will be run this year, predicted record-holding Miler (4:01.4) Gunder Hägg of Sweden. All that's necessary is that the right runners meet on the right track. "You need a small stadium. That helps block the wind . . . And above all, the runner should not be psychologically tied down. He shouldn't be afraid of the mighty four-minute mile . . . In a four-man field, with maybe one pacer for the first quarter, you can stretch out and go, smoothly and without interruption." Hägg's candidate to turn...
...Present record: 4 min. 1.4 sec., set by Sweden's Gunder Hägg...
...world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from amateur ranks a year...
...Gunder Hägg's average speed ' in his best (4:01.4) mile: 14.9 m.p.h...
...Antonio, it was 94° in the shade. Lennart Strand, "Hägg's Rabbit," who had come over from Sweden to show U.S. runners how a mile should be run (TIME, June 17), didn't bother to warm up. "This heat," said he, "I don't like it." Under a sizzling sun he used the first quarter of the race (the National A.A.U. 1,500 meter) to unlimber, and his time for it was a sleepy 65.4 seconds...