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In major league baseball's 86-year history, only twelve pitchers had managed to win 300 games, a feat last performed by Lefty Grove in 1941. Fortnight ago Milwaukee's balding, 40-year-old Warren Spahn made it by hurling a tidy six-hitter against the Chicago Cubs, thereby virtually assuring his nomination to baseball's exclusive Hall of Fame. Last week, still improving an indifferent season's record (13 wins, twelve losses), Spahn allowed the Pittsburgh Pirates ten widely scattered hits, won his 301st victory to become the winningest pitcher alive. If Spahn's durable left arm lasts another season, he can conceivably break the record set 44 years ago by Eddie Plank, the only major league southpaw to win 325 games.

P:For another crack lefthander, New York Yankee's Whitey Ford, last week was one of disappointment. Going up against the Chicago White Sox with the best lifetime won-lost average (.715) and the best season record in either league (20-2), Ford suffered a tough loss, 2-1, ended a 14-game winning streak that began last June.

P:The pre-meet sensation at last week's women's A.A.U. swimming championships in Philadelphia was ash-blonde Chris von Saltza, 17, who hoped to climax her competitive career by winning six gold medals. But Chris's retirement party was ruined by a willowy, 16-year-old upstart, Carolyn House of Los Angeles, who beat Chris in the 400-meter freestyle, also won the 200-meter and 1,500-meter races to swim off with three gold medals.

P:Completely dominating last week's world archery championships at Oslo, Norway, U.S. archers set two world records, swept all four gold medals. New women's champion: blonde Nancy Vonderheide, 23, of Cincinnati, who has been shooting for only two years. Top among the men was 42-year-old Tulsa TV Technician Joe Thornton, a modern William Tell who comes by his talent naturally: he is a full-blooded Cherokee Indian.

P:Long seeking a reliable replacement for aging (39) Quarterback Charlie Conerly, the once-redoubtable New York Giants last week landed just the man they needed: balding, strong-armed Y.A. Tittle, 34, a ten-year veteran with the San Francisco Forty-Niners.

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