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P: In North Sydney, Australia, the U.S.'s 16-year-old Sylvia Ruuska splashed to victory in the 220-yd. butterfly, touching out in 2 min. 40.3 sec., to set new world records for both 220 yds. and 200 meters. Aussies John Devitt and John Konrads lowered their own world freestyle marks, Devitt at 110 yds., Konrads at 440 yds. and 400 meters.

P: When the lackluster Detroit Red Wings shambled through a 5-0 defeat at the hands of the New York Rangers and fell to within a point of the National Hockey League cellar, Coach Sid Abel took quick action, socked 14 of his 18 players with $100 fines for what he called the worst Detroit performance in 20 years. P: Terry Brennan, rudely fired last December as head football coach at Notre Dame despite a winning career record (32-18), turned his back on a clutch of other college offers, announced at a testimonial dinner in Chicago that he was joining the investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co. Brennan, 30, will also run a player-conditioning program during spring training for the Cincinnati Redlegs. P: Australia's talented batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England's 510 runs in their second innings without losing a wicket, won their third of the best-of-five test matches to regain the Ashes, symbol of cricket supremacy between the two nations since 1882. Wailed London's Daily Mail: "The worst and most humiliating failure by an English overseas team for many a decade." P:In Boston, Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger, 25-year-old University of Oregon graduate, took advantage of a fast pace, closed with a finishing kick to win the two-mile run in 8 min. 49.9 sec.--a new world indoor record.

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