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P:At Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." P: For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three years (eight months in Korea with the 3rd Division) to join the New York Giants, professional football team. P:Statisticians wound up the baseball season with some final calculations. Milwaukee Lefthander Warren Spahn (23-7) led all major-league pitchers in effectiveness with an earned run average of 2.10 for every nine innings pitched. Runner-up: Yankee Lefthander Ed Lopat (16-4), with a 2.43 mark. Slugging leaders (determined by dividing total bases on hits by times at bat): Brooklyn Outfielder Duke Snider, .6271, Milwaukee Third Baseman Ed Mathews, .6269. In third place was Cleveland Third Baseman Al Rosen (.613), the American League's home-run leader (43), who got a salary raise to an estimated $40,000 last week. P: In Kansas City, the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn farm club, won the "Little World Series" by beating the Kansas City Blues, a Yankee farm club, four games to one. P:In Manhattan, the victorious New York Yankees drew record World Series shares of $8,280 apiece. The defeated Dodgers eased their disappointment with checks for $6,178. P: At Belmont Park, John S. Phipps's three-year-old colt Level Lea won the $81,350 Jockey Club Gold Cup by six lengths in a slow 3:27 for the two miles. P:[ In Paris, the U.S. Ryder Cup golf team, conquerors of the British fortnight ago, beat a team of continental pros, twelve matches to three.

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