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P: Too late. Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio discovered that he never had a chance in his title bout with Challenger Johnny Saxton in Chicago. Carmen ran himself ragged trying to catch his man, but ex-Champ Saxton stayed on his bicycle, avoided a knockout, and for his reward, received a unanimous decision that shocked sportswriters and spectators alike into a long Bronx cheer. "I just don't know why people feel badly because I won," said the new champion.

P: Carrying the orange silks of Leslie Combs's Spendthrift Farms on St. Patrick's Day was much too much for Nashua, the great bay colt gunning for Florida's $112,900 Gulfstream Park Handicap and a purse that would push his total earnings past Citation's alltime record of $1,085,760. Brookmeade Stable's pace-setting Sailor had more than enough to hold off Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Markus' Mielleux in the stretch drive. Third: Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Find. Nashua, under top weight of 129 Ibs. was never in contention, finished fifth.

P: While lawyers tangled in a marathon argument over his amateur status. Marine Miler Wes Santee ran another of his special races against token competition in the Cleveland K. of C. games. For a change, the fast-talking Kansan turned in a fast time on the track: 4:06.9, his best performance of the winter indoor season.

P: A fat and sloppy caricature of the man who had once been the greatest heavyweight fist fighter in the world, Joe Louis pulled on a pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in hock to the Government for more than $1,200,000 in back taxes, Joe earned about $1,500 by belting the Cowboy out of the ring with a short jab to the belly. "It's an honest living," was the best he could say of his new occupation, "and it's not stealing."

P: Running under ideal conditions at Bakersfield, Calif., Trinidad's Mike Agostini, a Fresno State College sophomore, ran a straightaway 220-yd dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. P:| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3 1/2 sec. to crack the record set by France's M. Pauliquen in 1917 (6 min. 29 3/8 sec.).

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