Who Won

-- Marine Lieut. Billy Mills, 27: the six-mile run in 27 min. 11.6 sec., clipping 6.2 sec. from the record set in 1963 by Australia's Ron Clarke; at the national A.A.U. track and field championships in San Diego, where the team to meet the U.S.S.R. at Kiev this month was chosen. Proving that his astonishing 10,000-meter victory in the Olympics was no fluke, Mills held off a strong challenge from Washington State's Gerry Lindgren, 19, who matched him stride for stride through a bristling 58 sec. final quarter-mile before Mills breasted the tape barely inches ahead. Timers called it a dead heat, and both will get the record, join other winners at Kiev. Among them: Kansas Schoolboy Jim Ryun, 18, whose 3 min. 55.3 sec. mile surprised observers--including New Zealand's great Peter Snell, 26, who had said earlier that he could not "see how a kid of 18 can break 3:56," saw how when his famed closing kick failed and he finished second by 2 ft.

> France's Michel Jazy, 29: the 5,000-meter run in 13 min. 27.6 sec., paring 2 sec. from his own European mark; at Helsinki's World Games. Continuing a fantastic, month-long campaign that has seen him smash seven European and world records, including the mile (TIME, June 18), Jazy took this occasion to show that he could run against topflight competition as well as against the clock in carefully staged set-piece races. Ranged against him at Helsinki was a raft of world stars, among them Australia's Ron Clarke and U.S. Olympic Winner Bob Schul; Jazy beat them all, turning on his sprint in the final 200 yds. to win by 5 yds. and come within 1.8 sec. of Clarke's four-week old world record.

>Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: the Wimbledon men's singles championship, with ease, trouncing fellow Aussie Fred Stolle, 26, for the second year in a row, with a straightforward serve-and-volley game that won in three quick sets, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The slender Aussie had only a bit more trouble in the semifinals, polishing off the U.S.'s top-ranked Dennis Ralston, 22, in four sets, 6-1, 6-2, 7-9, 6-1.

>N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, 39: his fight with the rival A.F.L. to see who puts a pro football team into Atlanta's spanking-new, $18 million, 57,000-seat stadium next year. The A.F.L. got there fustest (TIME, June 18), but after a three-week scrimmage, Atlanta's city fathers decided that Rozelle and the N.F.L. had the mostest: an older, bigger, better-playing league, and a better-paying one to boot. The N.F.L. franchise goes to Atlanta Insurance Man Rankin M. Smith, 40, who will spend something like $9,000,000 organizing a team and give Atlanta a whacking 10% of the gate as stadium rental.

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