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P: After too many years of timid boxing and tainted decisions that gave him the world's welterweight championship. Johnny Saxton tried his hand at honest fistfighting. For a few rounds at the Syracuse War Memorial Auditorium, he moved in and traded punches with Challenger Carmen Basilio. By the time he backed off and tried to defend himself, he was so beaten up he had nothing left. In the ninth round Basilio pounded him senseless. While Saxton was being lugged to his corner, the onetime Canastota (N.Y.) onion farmer knelt in mid-ring to give a prayer of thanks for the title.

P: Even though the Sports Car Club of America thought the new track at Watkins Glen, N.Y. too hazardous for car racing, its members refused to back out of the ninth annual Sports Car Grand Prix. Taking it easy on the loose gravel, the drivers spun through a shortened. 50-mile grind, avoided serious accident as George Constantine. a Massachusetts Civil Defense director, pushed his D-Jaguar to a careful victory.

P: Even the presence of Their Serene Highnesses Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco couldn't brighten the United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City after rain softened the course and the favored Swaps was scratched with an injured forefoot. However, C. V. Whitney's Career Boy ran the race of his life to catch Find and Mr. Gus in the stretch.

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