Sport: Who Won

¶ The U.S. Olympic two-mile relay team of Bill Ashenfelter, Reggie Pearman, Johnny Barnes and Mal Whitfield, by 40 yards over Britain's team, to set a world mark of 7 min. 29.2 sec.; U.S. Hurdler Charley Moore, through a driving rain, the 440-yd. event in a world record 51.6 sec.; at the post-Olympic British Games in London.

¶ The Philadelphia Athletics' pint-size Pitcher Bobby Shantz (TIME, June 23), over the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 3, to become the first major-league hurler to win 20 games this season.

¶ Nobody over nobody, in the 1952...

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