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P: The New York Yankees, often accused of buying up all the best ballplayers, tried a new talent-grabbing trick. Yankee scouts spotted Billy Joe Moore, 24, playing first base for the Oklahoma State Prison team. Though Moore, doing a seven-year stretch for burglary, is not due for release until next year, the Yanks talked the warden and the parole board into sending him to Grand Forks, N. Dak. to play minor league ball. If Moore stays out of trouble, said Yankee Scout Tom Greenwade (discoverer of Mickey Mantle), by next year he'll be playing Triple A ball.

P: In California, at the Compton Relays, Kansan Wes Santee announced that he was about to run a 4:00.3 mile. Santee's feat was almost as big as his boast. Racing in a cold wind, he was clocked in 4:00.6, an American record, second only to English Roger Bannister's historic 3:59.4.

P: In New York, at N.Y.A.C. spring games, National Champion Bob Backus tossed the 56-lb. weight 41 ft. 11 in. to set a new world's record. Previous record: 41 ft. 7 1/2 in., by Henry Dreyer in 1951.

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