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Nothing about Gunder ("The Onetime Wunder") Hägg's trip to the U.S. had run on schedule. He had arrived from Sweden four weeks ago on a big buildup and rubbery legs. He promptly lost three races while trying to nurse his soft calf muscles back into shape. Last week, gangling Gunder finally salvaged a blue ribbon...
Against the poorest field of a war-poor indoor track season in Cleveland's K. of C. Mile, Gunder Hägg stepped to the front at the three-quarter mark, lasted just long enough to win by a yard in 4:16.7, waltz time. He had one more chance on the schedule to hit his stride ? at Buffalo this week. His fans wondered if the speedy Swede hadn't just come over for the ride...
...again, on-again Gunder ("The Wunder") Hägg finally arrived in the U.S. last week. He did not swim over, as Manhattan newsmen had been suggesting he must be doing, during their month-long vigil at the docks; the speedy Swede came on a slow freighter, and he had sore feet from training-trots he made on the boat's steel decks...
...long-haired and hollow-cheeked as ever, 157-lb. Gunder the Wunder had added an American "O.K." to his vocabulary and, more important, he had a brand-new public-relations approach. Far from being the uncooperative, stubborn Swede who visited the U.S. two years ago, this time he seemed bent on pleasing. Said he to reporters in his best Garbo accent: "Because you have been waiting so long for me ... I shall run Saturday" (just 50 hours after stepping off the ship). He knew, of course, that it meant almost certain defeat in the I.C.4-A Invitation Mile...
Among the ace runners who have volunteered to race the treadmill are Glenn Cunningham, Gil Dodds, Gene Fenske, and Gunder Haegg. Haegg astounded the doctors by turning in a better performance running 11 miles an hour than an ordinary man can at seven. They described the lanky Swede as "the most beautiful running machine" they had seen...