Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form, things looked none too good for Greg Rice. "Gunder the Wunder," a self-coached runner, had smashed seven world's records ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters in 90 days last year. His time for 5,000 meters (3 miles, 188 yards, 2 inches) was 13 min. 58.2 sec. The fastest 5,000 Rice had ever...
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...
...world's fastest distance runner: long-legged, hollow-cheeked, 24-year-old Gunder Hägg (rhymes with egg) of Gavle, Sweden...
...Amateur Athletic Union, eager to have Hägg match strides with Super-Runner Gregory Rice in the national outdoor championships in New York City June 19-20, finally got him priority to cross the Atlantic by plane. But last week, on the eve of his scheduled departure, a Stockholm news despatch cryptically announced that Gunder Hägg had left for the U.S. on a Swedish tanker...
After the first inning, no Crimson runner saw third base as Merritt mowed them down. He issued only three passes, and the game was marked by only two errors, one by each team. Berg walked four men, and the contest was over in less than two hours...