Word: hagg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closest to the mythical four-minute-mile: lean-legged Gunder Hägg's 4:01.4 record (under fire while Sweden decided the controversial issue of Hagg's amateur status...
...Sweden. When promoters found that amateurs liked to eat as well as run, they began cutting them in on the profits. Last week Swedish newspapers reported that the Amateur Athletic Association had finally heard about it-and had been prop-perly shocked to find that Gunder (4:01.4) Hagg, Arne (4:01.6) Andersson and some 13 other hot-footing track stars had been eating right well. For charging as much as $500 for a single performance, the Association was about to rule them pros and rub their names-and records-off the record book...
That would leave Sidney Wooderson's 4:04.2 as the mark for the world's milers to shoot at. It would also leave U.S. indoor track promoters, who had hoped to offer their customers a winter fare of Hagg and Andersson, facing an immediately bleak future. One Simon-pure Swede who might help to brighten the picture: Lennart Strand, a newcomer who has beaten both Hagg and Andersson in recent months-apparently on an empty stomach...
...Rhode Island's Camp Endicott, Jim ("Iron Mike") Rafferty ended a perfect, ten-race season (including three wins over Sweden's Gunder Hagg) by winning the three-quarter-mile special. He watched bespectacled Haakon Lidman jack up Sweden's sagging track reputation by lowering the 15.8 world record for the 110-meter high hurdles by 1.4 seconds...
Last year, while Gunder visited the U.S., Arne experimented with a change of pace, learned to run his own race against great competition. His improvement is so marked that it may upset the balance so recently attained with Hagg. "[Andersson] is really terrific," Hagg said recently, "and may become much better than I am. I think I've just about done my share...