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...Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche 907 prototypes put on a performance that suggested this year may be Deutschland über Alles once again. They finished one-two-three in the 24 Hours of Daytona, the longest sports-car endurance race in the U.S. and a major tune-up for Le Mans...
...fans still talk about his father, Lee Petty, who in 13 years on the stock-car circuit won 54 Grand National races-a record that few experts ever expected to see beaten. Papa Petty is now 53; he walks with a permanent limp, the souvenir of a day at Daytona, Fla., when his car hurtled through a guardrail at 155 m.p.h., soared 150 ft. through the air, landed upside down in a parking lot. Lee retired from racing in 1962, but he is still a familiar figure around the track. Last May he was in Darling ton, S.C., to watch...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Prince Philip wields a mallet in the Queen's Cup polo match from London; plus the Firecracker "400" automobile race from Daytona Beach...
Welz was drafted in the fifth round by the Tigers last year in the college draft, and received a package deal which was worth about $30,000. Three days after the Yale game he reported to the Daytona Beach Islanders in the Class A Florida State League, and was their regular first baseman the remainder of the summer. He played 78 games, in the ball parks which house big leaguers in the spring. His statistics include six homers, 25 rbi's, 42 walks and runs, 79 strikeouts, and a .247 batting average. Slumps at the start and the end hurt...
MARJORIE WHITTEMORE Daytona Beach...