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P: Just a bit irritated because the Boston Bruins kept them from taking the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs in four straight games, the Montreal Canadiens went into the fifth game in their home-town Forum with fists, sticks and shoulders flying By the time the last man had picked himself otf the ice, les Canadiens had won 5-1 earned the National Hockey League championship for the second straight year

P:Pretty Patricia McCormick, winner of both Olympic gold medals for women's diving, won her final and most important prize as an amateur. For the outstanding contribution to amateur sportsmanship during 1956, the acrobatic Californian now a pro, got the Sullivan trophy.

P:Willie ("Cemetery") Perteet, the aging (51) Georgia caddy who lost his job as President Eisenhower's exclusive club toter because the Augusta National pro decided he was "too decrepit," got a longdistance vote of confidence from Spokane. Members of the Spokane Athletic Round Table invited Cemetery to caddy in their national seniors open (for men over 50), were still undecided whether to assign him to Ike's brother Edgar (68) or Augusta Pro Ed Dudley (55), the man who fired him.

P: For the first time since 1945, a U.S. citizen won Boston's Patriots' Day Marathon. Schoolteacher John J. Kelley, 26, of Groton, Conn, breezed home in 2 hr. 20 min. 5 sec. Running the 1,000th race of his career, and finishing a creditable 13th: John A. Kelley, 49 (no kin to John J.), the 1945 and 1935 winner.

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