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...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...
...Negro John Youie Woodruff, loping around in nine-foot strides, erased the records Borican set last year. His 1:47.7 clocking for the half-mile and 1:47 flat for 800 metres were even better than the outdoor marks for those distances made by Briton Sydney Wooderson last summer...
...issue of March 20, TIME refers to Glenn Cunningham as "the world's greatest miler." In view of the fact that Wooderson of England holds the record which is recognized by the International Amateur Athletic Federation, how can this statement be considered correct...
...once (on Dartmouth's board track, year ago) unofficially beaten the world's record of 4:06.4 by 2 seconds. This consistent excellence makes him, in most sportswriters' opinions, "world's greatest miler." Announced last week was a meeting between Cunningham and Britisher Sydney Wooderson (holder of the world's record) next June 17 in Princeton's Palmer Stadium...
...Wooderson is a frail-looking London solicitor whom the British fondly call "Leather Legs." Main chance U. S. runners have at his three world records is over the ultra-fast cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, where Cunningham, Ben Eastman and New Zealand's Jack Lovelock all set previous world records...