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P: It took Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson less than three minutes to convince every fight fan in the Polo Grounds that his match with Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson was a wretched mismatch. A pathetic primitive with an awesome capacity for absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and was on his knees at the bell. He went down again in the second, again in the ninth. In between, he did some calisthenics, tried a few yards of roadwork to "unlazy" his legs and continued to catch Floyd's furious punches. Midway in the tenth round, Referee Ruby Goldstein called off the bloody farce. While Hurricane was hauled to the hospital to be patched up by a team of urologists, neurologists and a plastic surgeon, Patterson started work for his next fight. In three weeks he is scheduled to meet Olympic Heavyweight Champion Pete Rademacher. Theoretically, he will be defending his title once more.

P: After a raucous career dedicated to every known form of umpire baiting, Pittsburgh Pirate Manager Bobby Bragan is used to getting thrown out of ball games. Last week, for a change, he was thrown out of his job. "This time," said Bobby, "I broke the oldest rule in the book. When the team doesn't win, the manager has to go." The eighth-place Pirates will finish the season under Coach Danny Murtaugh.

P: "Stan Musial is tired," said St. Louis Manager Fred Hutchinson before a game with the Giants. Musial agreed. But he played anyway, hit two home runs and two singles as the Cards won, 8-0, and pushed his lifetime total of extra-base hits to 1,140. Only Lou Gehrig (1,190) and Babe Ruth (1,356) have hit more.

P: In the all-collegiate final round of the U.S. Public Links Championship at Hershey, Pa., L.S.U. Sophomore Don Essig, 18, was far too steady for S.M.U.'s Gene Towry, 28, won by an impressive 6 and 5 and earned an automatic invitation to the National Amateur in September.

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