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...Smith, Yale's Rick Wilmer, and Princeton's Ross Odell should make the mile the day's closest race. Tigers Wayne Morse and Mike Mitchell should take first and second ahead of George Winters in the pole vault...
...Wilmer Dean Chance himself would say: "You better believe it." Five months and 150-odd games ago, the American League set forth to find a champion. Last week it was still looking. In three days the lead changed hands three times, with the three top teams-the Yankees, the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox-separated by only a half-game. Very unnerving-but great fun for the also rans. And nobody was getting a bigger chuckle out of all that chaos than Dean Chance, 23, a righthanded pitcher for the sixth-place Los Angeles Angels. Last week Chance...
Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. Fred Astaire as narrator and weekly guest stars in a new group of dramatic shows. "People Need People" concerns Navy Psychiatrist Harry A. Wilmer, who pioneered group-therapy techniques for mentally disturbed war casualties...
Veteran Bob Friend (17-12), who relies on breaking pitches. In addition, the Pirates have Southpaws Harvey Haddix (11-10) and Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell (13-8) to confound the predominantly lefthanded Yankees' hitting power. Out in the bullpen is one of baseball's top relief men: ElRoy Face (10-8), who throws a dipping forkball that induces rally-killing grounders. For the Yankees, fading Whitey Ford (12-9) still looks able to pitch two big games with know-how and his sharp curve, and Art Ditmar (15-9) has developed into a steady winner with his slider...
York and Newport luxury. A gangling, tree-tall adolescent with a huge head topped by unruly red hair, Alec inevitably got the nickname "Pin," learned to play tennis well enough to reach the quarterfinals of the Newport Invitational when he was 16. He prepared for the match (against Wilmer Allison) by drinking till dawn, then amazed himself by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. At this point his hangover caught up with him. Says Cushing: "I had a total blackout. When I tried to throw the ball up for service, I almost went flat on my face...