Winners

P: Such giants of swimming as Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller would not look so giant-like today. Dozens of swimmers now can better their Olympic 100-meter times by as much as five seconds. And last week at Detroit, in the National A.A.U. Championships, dozens did. In the 1,500-meters, Hawaii's little Ford Konno, 18 (5 ft. 6 1/2-in., 143 Ibs.), bested Australia's John Marshall by a full pool length (50 meters). Time: 18:46.3. P: Calumet Farm added another to its dazzling array of racing wins. Last week in the $75,275 Arlington Futurity, a Calumet colt, undefeated Hill Gail, won by better than a length over a field of 18 of the nation's promising two-year-olds. P: From Cape Gris-Nez, France, the traditional take-off for English Channel swimmers, eight men (six of them Egyptians) and a British girl, 17, last week started the 21-mile swim. The girl was pulled out of the water after two hours. Two men finally made it: Phil Rising, 41, an English watchmaker, and Abdel Latis Abou Heif, 22, an Egyptian student. Next day Ned Barnie, 54, a science teacher in Edinburgh, became the fourth man in history to swim the Channel in both directions. P: Lloyd Prest is a hot (mid 70s) golfer in southern Australia; Mick O'Donnell shoots in the high 90s. Over a drink, Prest bet he could beat O'Donnell using a pickax handle. He did, 95-107. P: In the National League, Outfielder Clyde Vollmer was no great shakes as a hitter. Waived into the American League, he started to break up ball games for the Boston Red Sox, fortnight ago knocked in the winning run in three successive games. Last week, Vollmer beat Cleveland (and Pitcher Bob Feller) with a 16th inning grand-slam home run. It was the twelfth game Vollmer had won for Boston, and left the Red Sox just .009 behind the league-leading Yankees.

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