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...managed his happy-go-lucky "Whiz Kids" to the pennant in 1950. Grown up, the Phils particularly resented Sawyer's dictum against wives at spring training, his strict curfews. Under amiable "Stout Steve" O'Neill, the Phils played the rest of the season at a .648 clip, the fastest in the league. Last week, taking up where they left off, the Phils went scooting...
...news of the race, as it filtered back by radio to the Brescia crowd, was of records being smashed again & again at every checkpoint. Ferrari Driver Gianni Marzotto, the 1950 winner, reached Verona at an average clip of 106 m.p.h. Minutes later, Verona clocked Argentina's Juan Fangio, in an Alfa Romeo, at 106.6. Former World Champion Nino Farina, of Turin, also in a Ferrari, raised it to 109.7. The crowd gasped when it heard about Italy's Consalvo Sanesi and his Alfa Romeo. His speed: 112.8 m.p.h...
...varsity line coach wandered from group to group around the floor, checking off names. Sweaty basketball players leaned momentarily over his clip board, mumbled impatiently, then continued shooting...
...seven late-comers crowded around the clip board; the rest disappeared down the stairs. A few started throwing basketballs again...
Pete Wittereid, Army's only first-place winner, had to clip more than a second off the Military Academy's record to edge Don Mulvey in the 200-yard back-stroke. Wittereid's time was 2:13.3 minutes...