¶ Needled by Communist bigwigs, Russian track and field stars turned on the heat in the last few days of Moscow’s Spartakiada sports festival. A runner virtually unknown in the West, Semyon Rzhishchin, lowered the world 3,000-meter steeplechase record to 8:39.8. Soviet swimmers dropped the 4OO-meter medley relay mark to 4:14.8.
¶ Stan Musial’s seventh-inning double could not keep the St. Louis Cardinals from losing to the Milwaukee Braves 8-0, but it was Stan the Man’s 1,072nd extra-base hit, an achievement that gives him the National League record, one ahead of the Giants’ Mel Ott.
¶ Tennessee A. & I. State University Club’s Mae Faggs, 24, almost ran away with the women’s National A.A.U. championships in Philadelphia. She won the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and ran anchor leg on her club’s winning 400-meter relay team. San Francisco’s Pamela Kurrell, 17, skimmed the discus 140 ft. 11 in., to break the American record she had set just the day before.
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