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P: Fourth victim of the annual baseball-manager shifts, Marty Marion resigned as manager of the third-place Chicago White Sox. Said "Mr. Shortstop" frankly: "They were not happy with my work." More happily, the Baseball Writers Association named the Manager of the Year: New York Yankees' Casey Stengel in the American League, George ("Birdie") Tebbetts, of the third-place Cincinnati Redlegs, in the National League.

P:Stung by Japanese criticism of their playing ("We have nothing to learn from the Dodgers," said the manager of the Mainichi Orions), the Dodgers finally got themselves untracked, clobbered the Kanto All-Stars 8-0 and 12-1, brought their touring record to four wins, two losses and a draw. Japanese ballplayers, admitted Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, "are somewhere between the Texas League and the Southern Association, and that is quite complimentary."

P:The International Amateur Athletic Federation slapped a ban on the Spanish whirligig style of javelin throwing, which had been producing phenomenal results all over Europe (TIME, Oct. 29), by adding a sentence to the javelin-throwing rules: "At no time after preparing to throw, until the javelin has been discharged into the air, may the competitor turn completely around so that his back is toward the throwing arc."

P: The U.S. Olympic Team was far off form in lackluster practice meets at Berkeley, Calif. Star Sprinter Bobby Morrow finished a puffing third in one 100-meter dash, fourth in another, while University of California Alternate Leamon King has twice tied the pending world's record with 10.1-sec. wins. Said U.S. Track and Field Coach "Dink" Templeton, complaining that some of the boys apparently haven't trained all summer: "Unless they show improvement, there will be some astonishing upsets at Melbourne."

P: Australia's John Landy, after several night jogs around Melbourne, "because I did not want crowds following me," announced that his sore Achilles tendons now felt fine, and he would be able to participate in the games after all.

P: Radio Budapest announced that, because "their training has been interrupted," the Hungarian Olympic Team (which includes Sandor Iharos, holder of five world records at distances from 1,500 meters to 5,000) would not travel to the games. Reported killed in fighting against Soviet troops in Hungary: Josef Csermak, 1952 Olympic hammer-throwing champion; Major Ferenc Puskas, captain of Hungary's great postwar soccer team; Gabor Benedek, runner-up in the 1952 Olympic pentathlon championship.

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