Sport: Who Won

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¶ In Buenos Aires, the 500-man Argentine squad, the first Pan-American games (on an unofficial point-allotment basis), with 1,074¢ Points to 734¢ for the runner-up U.S. squad. The Argentines dominated the field in polo, boxing, tennis and shooting; the U.S. settled for most of the track & field titles.

¶ In New Delhi, Japan over runner-up India, 130-95, for the team title in the first Asian games (see FOREIGN NEWS).

¶ In final polls of the Associated Press and United Press, the Kentucky basketball team, the title of No. i team of the year. Runner-up: Oklahoma A. & M.

¶ In Princeton, N.J., the Columbia basketball team over Princeton, 73-66, for Columbia’s first undefeated season (and 31 straight) in 51 years of basketball.

¶ In Cleveland, Pole Vaulters Bob Richards and Don Laz, a tie at 15 ft. 1 in., the first time in track history that two men had cleared 15 ft. in the same meet. It was the first time for Laz, the fourth for Richards.

¶ In Manhattan, Heavyweight Rex Layne, 22, over Bob Satterfield, by an eight-round knockout, to make clumsy, hard-punching Layne the newest member of the I-want-a-shot-at-Ezzard-Charles club.

¶In Philadelphia, Alastair Martin over William Linglebach, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2, for Martin’s third national amateur court tennis title.

¶In Cambridge, Mass., Yale over Harvard, 51-24, for Yale’s 71st consecutive dual-meet swimming victory.

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