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P: On the rain-dampened track at Melbourne's Olympic stadium, World Champion Miler John Landy figured to run his favorite distance in no better than 4:04. But as he breezed past the three-quarter-mile mark he heard his time announced as 3 min. flat. He decided to turn it on, finished the final quarter in a blazing 58.6 sec. to break the 4-min. barrier for the fourth time in five races. The 3:58.6 time is 0.6 sec. off Landy's world record.

tP: Irked by the advance alibi making of some of the critics who fear that Russia's state-subsidized athletes may whip the U.S.'s expense account amateurs at the Olympics in Australia next November, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage, world's No. 1 defender of pure amateurism, sounded off. "Champions are not made by subsidies or training camps but by diligence and intelligence ... It is not the strength of other people that we in the U.S. need fear. It is our national complacency ... If Russian success in the Olympic games arouses us ... it will serve a useful purpose."

P: For the fourth year in a row Richard Alonzo ("Pancho") Gonzales, 27, demonstrated that he is the best tennis player in the world. In the finals of the world professional championships at Cleveland he whipped Ecuador's Pancho Segura (in table tennis scoring), 21-15, 13-21, 21-14, 22-20.

P: Beefed up with young talent and a brand new coach (George Senesky), the Philadelphia Warriors came back from three straight years in the cellar of the Eastern Division of the National Basketball Association to take four out of five games from the Fort Wayne Pistons and win the world professional championship.

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