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P: Still ageless and agile at 60, give or take ten years. Leroy ("Satchel") Paige returned to organized baseball after a three-year absence spent barnstorming in the Negro leagues. In his debut as a pitcher for the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. Satch showed that there was still plenty of spring left in his ancient arm; in four innings, he allowed the Seattle Rainiers three scratch hits, gave up two unearned runs. P:Before 30,000 Bulgarian fans packed into Sofia's Vasil Levski stadium, Russia's Valery Brumel. 19, bettered his own world record for the high jump, cleared 7 ft. 4 1/2in. at the world student games. Brumel's old world mark of 7 ft. 44 in. was set in July at the U.S.-Russian meet in Moscow. Once before the Russian high flyer hit 7 ft. 4 1/2 in., but that was indoors, where world records are not recognized. P: In a head-bumping fandango at Seattle, light-hitting Harold Johnson, the National Boxing Association's light heavyweight champion (recognized in every state except New York, Massachusetts and California, which prefer Archie Moore), won a 15-round split decision over Challenger Eddie Cotton. Johnson's guaranteed purse of $20,000 was the biggest he has ever won in 14 years of professional boxing.

P: Aching with the muscular miseries early in the season. Trotter Harlan Dean came from behind in both heats to win the Hambletonian. Kentucky Derby of harness racing, on the concrete-hard clay oval at Du Quoin, Ill. With Driver Jimmy Arthur in the sulky, the three-year-old colt set a record with a combined clocking of 3:57! in the two heats. Harlan Dean's purse: $77,364.93.

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