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...They may have been fickle, but the fans also were safe enough in their choice. For Rafe Johnson already held the world's record in the ten-event test that is an all-but-unrecognizable descendant of the pentathlon* of ancient Olympic times. In his home town of Kingsburg, Calif, last year, he ran up an astonishing total of 7,985 points, 98 more than Bob Mathias' winning Olympic performance in 1952, a fat 338 more than the best ever scored by his fast-improving prospective chief rival at Melbourne this fall, Russia's Vasiliy Kuznetsov...
Rafe went home to Kingsburg, tuned up by going out for every sport he could. He worked out no special training routine for the demanding decathlon, simply determined to spend four hours a day practicing whichever event suited his or his coach's fancy, a routine he still follows...
...Kingsburg, Calif...
Winthrop--rf, Guren; 1b, Foster; p, Bixler; 2b, Ways; ss, Nichelson; 3b, Welsh; c, Wallace; cf, Williams; 1f, Ecob. Kirkland--c, Tanner; p, McGaffrey, Singer; 1b, Felton; 2b, Senay, Gull; 3b, Perry; ss, Winters; rf, Killam, Knight, Weary; cf, Cogan, Bluestone; lf, Flynn, Beck, Metzer; sf, Kingsburg...
Keenie Wagner, alias Harvey Logan, alias "Texas Slim," confessed killer of deputy-sheriff Mclntosh at McClain, Miss.; of two police officers at Kingsburg, Tenn., wagged garrulously of the $3,000 reward on his capture as Sheriff Lillie put him in a county cell. Asked why he surrendered, "Texas Slim" said: "The novelty.... I never gave up to a woman before...