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-- The red-hot American League pennant race showed no signs of slowing down. With homers by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees kept a precarious hold on first place, took the initial game of a double-header with Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox bounced back, 3-2, thanks to Third Baseman Bob Kennedy's first inning, three-run homer. The split held the Yankee's lead to half a game. Poor pitching cost the Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place tie to No. 3, one game out. The Boston Red Sox kept coming, powered by Homer-hitters Grady Hatton, Ted Williams, and Eddie Joost; they knocked off the hapless Athletics, 14-2, wound up only 3 1/2 games out of first place. CJ In Philadelphia, green-eyed Barbara Breit, 17, defeated Mexico City's Maria Reyes, 6-2, 6-1, to win the U.S. girls' grass-court tennis championship for the second straight year, then joined Diane Wooton, to take the doubles, 4-6, 8-6, 7-5.

-- At Charlotte, N.C., 22-year-old Pat Lesser, Seattle University senior, won the U.S. Women's Amateur golf championship, outgaming Jane Nelson by 7 and 6 in the 36-hole final at Myers Park Country Club.

-- At Ocean City, N.J., 21-year-old Corny ("Glit") Shields Jr., son of Broker-Yachtsman Cornelius Shields (TIME, July 27, 1953), outskippered 24 other contenders to win the International Class no championship in five days' close racing.

-- In Cleveland, 30-year-old Vic Wertz, the Indians' veteran first baseman and outfielder, now in his ninth major-league season, was stricken with a mild attack of polio. Wertz, whose long-ball hitting (14 homers, 55 runs batted in) has helped keep the Indians high up in the American League pennant race, was a standout batter of the last year's World Series (a .500 average, including one homer, one triple and two doubles). At week's end Wertz's doctors reported "no signs" of paralysis, but he will probably be out for the rest of the season. Temporary replacement at first base: Ferris Fain, onetime hardhitting first baseman (.344 in 1951) for the Philadelphia Athletics.

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