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...Gundar Haegg and his traveling companion, G'1 Dodds of the Boston Athletic Association, will run the Boston Installment of their transcontinental competition in the Harvard Stadium at 7:30 o'clock on the evening of Saturday, July...
...Relief Fund, the five-event meet will start off at 7 o'clock, and the Swedish star will be able to run in the cool twilight, as he did back in the old country. The main event, listed as two miles, may be cut to one, and will feature Haegg, Dodds, and Don Burnham of Dartmouth...
...Sweden's Gunder Haegg: a 3,000-meter run; in 8 min., 1.2 sec., a new world's record; at Stockholm. In less than two months Runner Haegg has set five world's records. The others: one mile (4:06.2), two miles (8:47.8), 1,500 meters (3:45.8), 2,000 meters (5:11.8). If transportation can be arranged, Haegg will tour the U.S. this winter as guest of the Amateur Athletic Union...
...Gaunt & gainly Gunder Haegg, Sweden's No. 1 foot racer: a 2,000-meter run in 5 min., 16.4 sec.; clipping four-tenths of a second off the accepted world's record set by Kansan Archie San Romani in 1937; at Malmö, Sweden. It was the fourth time in three weeks that Haegg had set a new world's record. He ran 1,500 meters in 3:45.8, a mile in 4:06.2, two miles in 8:47.8. Hailed as another Nurmi, Haegg has been invited to tour the U.S. next winter...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...