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That clocking would have rated Weissmuller nothing but a spectator's seat at last week's National A.A.U. championships in Lincoln, Neb., where tads the size of his beloved Cheetah smashed five world and eleven meet records. And when they did not break records, they logged times that would have crushed Johnny at his best. Like Mark Spitz, 18, who splashed off with the 100-meter freestyle...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National A.A.U. Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving championships, from Lincoln, Neb...
Died. Samuel Earl ("Wahoo Sam") Crawford, 88, baseball's turn-of-the-century Hall of Fame outfielder who set slugging records in the difficult days of Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and the dead ball; of a stroke; in Hollywood. "Now the game is all different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home...
...OMAHA, NEB., June 12--The Harvard baseball team flew home yesterday after an all too brief three-day stay at the NCAA College World Series, and the half-formed question had to be, Did Harvard belong here...
Harvard crushed the top teams in New England last week to win a berth in the NCAA "College World Series," which opens today in Omaha, Neb...