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...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...
...mile run, by Hagg in his first rare of the season. It bettered his own two-year-old world mark...
...meter run, by Hagg, beating Andersson's mark of 3:45 set last year. Running a close second, Andersson also shattered his previous record by a full second...
Although the honors are evenly divided so far, Andersson is the season's standout. Before this year he was a Hagg-ridden runner, could never win against Gunder the Wonder. Arne's finishing kick was better but Gunder's quick start and speed put him always just out of reach...
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...