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> Forced to cancel his assault on John Cobb's world land-speed record (394.196 m.p.h.) when officials at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats ruled the surface too dangerously rough for his 3,200-h.p. super-hot-rod Challenger I, California's Mickey Thompson turned up instead in a 1962 Pontiac, smashed 50 U.S. stock-car records--despite a blundering pit crew that set the engine afire by spilling oil on it and then proceeded to spray Thompson in the face with gasoline. Over one kilometer from a flying start, the Pontiac was clocked at 153.64 m.p.h., and it averaged 143.12 m.p.h. through a three-hour endurance run.

> Guiding his horse Injun through a faultless ride over a 17-obstacle 810-yd. course, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, top U.S. equestrian and captain of the 1960 Olympic team that won a silver medal in jumping, easily won London's Country Life and Riding Cup competition at White City Stadium. Steinkraus toured the course in 90.6 sec., beat Britain's George Hobbs by 2.7 sec.

> Erratic Whitney Reed, the U.S.'s No. 1-ranked tennis player, suffered a double loss when he was beaten by unranked Mike Belkin of Miami Beach in the first round of the National Clay Courts Championships, and then because of his poor showing was fired from the 1962 Davis Cup team by Captain Robert Kelleher. In the Clay Courts men's finals, Missouri's Chuck McKinley gave U.S. prestige a modest boost by trouncing the top foreign seed, Australia's Fred Stolle, 6-3, 8-6, 6-4.

> Oldest and best-known trainer of race horses in the U.S.--and still going strong--Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons celebrated his 88th birthday with a champagne-and-cake party at New Jersey's Monmouth Park. Blue eyes twinkling, "Mr. Fitz" confided that he has not bet on a horse since Aug. 13, 1919, when he risked $150 on the nose of Man O' War--the day "Big Red" was beaten by Upset, the only loss of his career. Asked if he plans to retire soon, Mr. Fitz snorted: "A man doesn't quit in his prime."

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