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P: Meeting in New York, the strait-laced U.S. Lawn Tennis Association loosened amateur standards enough to conform with International Lawn Tennis Federation rules. Main changes: amateurs (beginning at 21 instead of 35) may now work for sporting-goods firms, may teach tennis in schools and colleges if employed as regular faculty members.

P: In Sapporo, Japan, Russians swept the first three places in the world speed-skating championships against teams from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan and Korea. Missing from the contest: the U.S. team. Reason: lack of funds.

P: In Detroit, school officials banned night games for high-school basketball teams after a gang of rowdy teen-agers cut and stabbed the star of one winning team, 18-year-old Ross A. De Boskey.

P: In Boston, Olympic 1,5000-meter Champion Josef Barthel of Luxembourg, now a graduate student at Harvard, made an impressive U.S. debut as a miler: 4:10.3 clocking as he beat FBI-Man Fred Wilt.

P: Baseball's American League announced the retirement of veteran Umpire in Chief Tom Connolly, 83, who was behind the plate, in 1901 when the first American League game was played (Chicago 8, Cleveland 2).

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