¶Gail Peters, 22-year-old Olympic swim prospect, the "big apple" (individual honors) in the National A.A.U. women's senior indoor championships, by taking three events in record times; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Swimming for the Army's Walter Reed Hospital, Miss Peters bettered American records in the 300-yd. individual medley (3:51.3), the 200-yd. breast stroke (2:40.1), and the A.A.U. record in the 100-yd. breast stroke (1:11.7).
¶Hill Gail, Calumet's prize three-year-old, the $10,000 Phoenix Handicap, at Lexington, Ky. Warming up for the Kentucky Derby, Hill Gail closed with a stretch drive under Jockey Eddie Arcaro to equal Allegro's 14-year-old track record (1:10⅔) for six furlongs.
¶Blue Man, another Derby hopeful, the Experimental Handicap No. 2 at Jamaica, in the good time of 1:44 1/16 for 1 mi.
¶Texas Sportsman Alfred C. Glassell Jr., the world's record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk—about 300 lbs.—of the tail.)