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P: Tossed out at home: the Detroit Tigers' Walter ("Spike") Briggs Jr. A man with a tiger by the tail ever since he inherited the team from his father, Spike tried hard not to let go. When the courts ordered him to sell, he talked the new owners into keeping him on as executive vice president and general manager, but last week his resignation was "accepted." Said Spike: "It was a semi-force play." P: A warm spring day left Olympic Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski with a spring to spare. In a dual meet with Stanford, the Occidental College senior had the bar set at 15 ft. 9 in., cleared it by almost 4 in. Later measurement showed that the bar had sagged to 15 ft. 8 1/4in., still one-half inch above Cornelius Warmerdam's 15-year-old world outdoor record. Warmer-dam, for one, had seen the new heights coming. Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. P: Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12 1/2-9 1/2. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight."

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