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After last week's race, the men in the press box were ready to forgive Hagg all this puckery humor. In awed silence, they watched him take off his shoes and patter barefoot over the scorching concrete of the stadium to the broadcasting booth. There, impassive as a totem pole, he stood before a microphone, said hello to his countrymen back home...
...Race. Rice seldom sets the pace. Neither does Hagg. But after the first lap of the big race, lean Gunder decided to take the lead. A youngster named Wilt spurted past Hagg once, passed him again. But Hagg refused to be annoyed. With effortless ease he glided over the cinders, his fringe of long hair flapping, his voluminous shorts billowing like a spinnaker...
...mile he was 6 yards behind. At two miles there were 60 yards between them. Gunder Hagg could not be caught. His time (14:48.5) was not for the record books. But his racing stride was something never to be forgotten...
...Winner. Ever since Gunder Hagg arrived in the U.S. two weeks ago he has confounded U.S. sportswriters. He speaks only a few English words, but at his first press interview, he gave the sportswriters knuckle raps aplenty...
When one asked how he happened to become a runner, Hagg looked quizzical for a moment, then snapped to his interpreter: "Ask him how he happened to become a sportswriter." Another asked: "What are your duties as a fireman?" Replied tart Gunder Hagg: "I put out fires." He calmly announced that he expected to break no records while in the U.S. because he was past his peak (at 24)-"and that's the time to become a sportswriter, when you're past your peak...