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...contests to run faster, leap higher, throw farther. For many, there were accomplishments they once would have thought impossible. A mile relay team fell into triumphant embrace when word came of qualification for the state finals. Team members shouted the joy of victory???"We did it!" ?and then asked permission to break training: "Now can we go to the Dairy Queen, Coach?" Granted...
...Tigers' star righthander has started 36 games, finished 25, struck out 243 batters and allowed just 64 earned runs, or an average of 1.95 per nine-inning game. Last week, against the Minnesota Twins, he scattered nine hits, struck out twelve, and coasted to an 8-3 victory???his 28th of the year against only five losses. With perhaps five starts still ahead of him, McLain has already surpassed the best single-season performances of Carl Hubbell, Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Whitey Ford and Sandy Koufax. No one has approached his performances in 16 years, and just two more victories...
...victory that surprised even Dayan and his officers ("I thought it would take a day or two longer," Chief-of-Staff Rabin said laconically), the Israelis are clearly not yet sure what to do with their spoils. Indeed, they hardly had time to count the full cost of their victory???or of the Arab defeat. Casualty figures, as yet, are fragmentary, but the few days of desert warfare may well have accounted for more dead than a whole year's fighting in Viet Nam. And historians will be a long time calculating the price in Arab morale, to say nothing...
...might make it easier for France in the challenge round, was delighted also by the next thing that happened. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, 8-6. This unexpected victory???one more in the record of a team that had astounded tennis critics by beating England in the European zone finals?gave an unexpected importance to Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr.'s first singles match, against Dr. Daniel Prenn of Berlin...
...four reined up, dismounted, received from the hands of Major General Robert Lee Bullard a huge silver bowl?the historic International Challenge Cup, filled with "the waters of the Meadow Brook." Lifting it, the four drank in turn to their victory???Captain Devereux Milburn, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Watson Webb, Robert Strawbridge...