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P: Lagging through the first three-quarters of the race like a kid on his way to the dentist, Australian Miler Mervyn Lincoln came on fast in the final lap at the Los Angeles Coliseum and almost gave the crowd the four-minute mile it had come to see. He finished in 4:01, ahead of Britain's Brian Hewson (4:01.4), Hungarian Expatriate Laszlo Tabori (4:01.6) and Britain's Derek Ibbotson (4:02). All four had already broken four minutes elsewhere; Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought to be a challenge to the young fellows of the States." It was. Muscular Olympian Tom Courtney ran himself into exhaustion in a spectacular 880-yd. race, beat his Melbourne teammate Arnie Sowell by 1 1/2 seconds, set a new world's record (1:46 8) and announced that he was now ready to take a crack at the four-minute mile.

P:His team was losing to the Boston Red Sox 3-0 in the fifth inning when the Cleveland Indians' Righthander Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuscahoma McLish was called in to pitch. Deep in an almost impossible situation, Cal tried every pitch he knew and thereby earned a place in the record book. In the sixth inning Boston Second Baseman Gene Mauch connected with Cal's best change-up for a leftfield homer. Leftfielder Ted Williams belted a fast ball into the right-field seats. Cal had only curves left. First Baseman Dick Gernert and Third Baseman Frank Malzone walloped a couple of them out of leftfield, and the Sox went on to win no. No other American League pitcher has tossed up four home-run balls in a single inning since Philadelphia's George Caster gave the Red Sox the same sort of gift in 1940. Said Pitcher McLish: "I gave them "a variety of pitches. It was nothing, really."

P:Russell Stanley Callow's friends back home in Washington State figured that at 66 old "Rusty," dean of U.S. rowing coaches, ought to be ready to retire. So they brought the white-thatched old woodsman back to the Olympic Peninsula where he grew up and made him "Honored Citizen" at the Mason County forest festival. Rusty had been gone from the woods for more than 40 years. His crews have won the world's top rowing honors--from collegiate championships at Poughkeepsie to Olympic laurels at Helsinki--but to everyone's surprise he insisted that he is not the least bit tired. He likes his present job as Navy coach too much to quit. "I never know my youngsters until they come down to the boathouse to try out for the crew," he told his old logging pals. "And some of them prove to have no more rhythm than a knot in an outhouse door. But if you like to work with young men, as I do, you can't help but want to stay with them."

P:When the Johns Hopkins University Bluejays and the Mount Washington Club Wolfpack squared off to bash skulls for the national open lacrosse championship, the title was sure to stay where it belongs: in Baltimore, lacrosse capital of the U.S. Both Baltimore teams were unbeaten and untied when the game started; they were still unbeaten when it ended. After two overtime periods and 70 minutes of mayhem on the lawn, the final score was nii.

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