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P: In the National Amateur Athletic Union track and field championships at Boulder, Colo., the thin air at 5,350 ft. above sea level proved a tonic for the University of Pittsburgh's Arnie Sowell, winner of the 880-yd. run in 1 min. 47.6 sec., a full second under Mai Whitfield's listed world record. The atmosphere was not so kind to the milers: the U.S. Marines' Wes Santee, top U.S. hope for cracking the 4-minute-mile barrier, beat out his old rival, the Army's Fred Dwyer, by 25 yards, but Winner Santee's time was a lackadaisical 4 min. 11.5 sec.

P: Ghosts of last year's world champions, the New York Giants, faltering in the National League's fourth place, were ambushed in Minneapolis at an exhibition game with their farm club, bowed to the Millers, 9-5. This ignominy triggered some rumors, led Club President Horace Stoneham, on the spot, to issue two flat denials: 1) Giant Manager Leo ("the Lip") Durocher has no intention of quitting, nor will he be fired; 2) the Giants will not leave New York. The Giants, however, did leave fading (34) Outfielder Monte Irvin, key man on the pennant-winning club in 1951, down on the farm.

P: Wimbledon's courts were strewn with upsets in the 69th All-England tennis championships. Earliest high-seeded casualties: U.S. Davis Cup Player Vic Seixas, blasted out in the second round by U.S. Hard Court Champion Gil Shea ''who was ousted two rounds later by Italy's up-and-coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, Wimbledon's paunchy but powerful Defending Champion Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt, Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Sweden's Davidson, Italy's high-touted Pietrangeli.

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