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The first time the Pittsburgh Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came to bat in a game with the Phillies, he missed a home run by inches; his long drive to right bounced off the barrier for a double. In two more tries, Long belted two more shots that Philly outfielders just managed to grab. Then he got the range. In the eighth inning, he walloped the ball a country mile for his seventh home run in seven consecutive games, a major-league record that broke the six-game mark held by the St. Louis Browns' Ken Williams, the Giants' "Long George" Kelly, Walker Cooper and Willie Mays, and the Yankees' Lou Gehrig.

Pushed along by a couple of the fastest quarter-milers in the U.S. (University of Texas' Eddie Southern and Oklahoma A. & M.'s J. W. Mashburn), Air Force 2nd Lieut. Jim Lea, sometime of U.S.C., forgot all about his sore leg and stepped off a world-record 440-yd. dash (0:45.8) at Modesto, Calif.

In one of the best and bloodiest middleweight fist fights in years, Utah's Gene Fullmer and France's Charles Humez cut each other up like feuding samurai for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden before Fullmer won the decision and, perhaps, a chance to send Champion Sugar Ray Robinson back to the nightclubs.

Shunning the relatively simple task of defending his I.C.4-A. 100-yd.-dash title at Randalls Island, N.Y., University of Pennsylvania Sprinter Johnny Haines warmed up for the Olympic tryouts by taking a crack at the 220-yd. and 440-yd. dashes. He won both (his times: 0:20.5 and 0:47.3). Not since Ray Barbuti prepared for his Olympic triumph by turning the trick in 1928 has anyone run off with these same two titles.

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