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...meter freestyle at the A.A.U. meet, her competitors included the defending world-record holder (at 4 min. 39.5 sec.) Marilyn Ramenofsky, and Patty Caretto who only two days before had set a new world mark for 1,500 meters. For the first 300 meters, it was strictly a two-girl race-with Martha third. Then she began to sprint, flashed past Ramenofsky, overhauled Caretto in the last lap, and drew out to win by 2.5 sec. Her time: a record-smashing 4 min. 39.2 sec. Next day, just to prove it was no fluke, Martha also won the 200-meter...
Beyond Belief. When a pro aces, it's kind of ho-hum. The world-record holder of holes in one, Art Wall has 35 aces to his credit after 16 years on the tour-and has yet to make a dime out of any of them. "I don't even talk about it," he says morosely. Neither does Jerry Krueger, a California pro, who got his fourth in last week's Bob Hope Desert Classic. The trouble was that he shot it on the seventh hole in the third round. The Chrysler people were offering a convertible...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 27: a wind-whipped, three-mile race at Melbourne's Olympic Park, in the world-record time of 13 min. 7.6 sec.-clipping 2.4 sec. off the old mark held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg, who trailed Clarke through the tape by 150 yds. Peter Snell failed in his attempt to break his own world record for the mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.), still clocked 3 min. 57.6 sec.-the eleventh time the muscular New Zealander has cracked...
Perhaps the surest winner of all for the Crimson will be yet another soph. Neville Hayes, in the butterfly events. In 1960 Hayes was a world-record holder and won a silver medal for Australia in the Olympic Games in Rome. Last year he set Harvard and national freshman butterfly records on his way to an undefeated season...
...team won the silver medal in the curiously militaristic modern pentathlon (riding, fencing, shooting, swimming, cross-country running), edging out Hungary's defending Olympic champions. Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a theology student, shot his way to the 300-meter three-position free rifle title, with a world-record score of 1,153 points; two other marksmen gave the U.S. second and third in small bore-rifle prone-position competition. In 1960, the best Yankee yachtsmen could manage was one gold medal, one bronze. Last week, with four out of seven races completed, the U.S. was leading...