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P: The season's climactic basketball game was played in Louisville, Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler was whooping in the stands, and after Seattle's All-American Elgin Baylor had hobbled himself with four fouls, nothing could stop Kentucky from winning the N.C.A.A. basketball championship, 84-72. Said Kentucky Coach Adolph Rupp in the fanciest dribble of the tournament: "We're tickled to death tonight that The Master that points the finger of destiny pointed it at us."

P: In thefinals of basketball's National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden, redheaded Sharpshooter Hank Stein sank six quick points in the overtime period, to lead the erratic Xavier University Musketeers (regular season record: 15 wins, 11 losses) to an upset victory over top-seeded Dayton University, 78-74.

P: Coiling like a spring, the University of Southern California's Rink Babka, 21, spun out of his crouch and watched his discus sail beyond the marking area and plop into a ditch 201 ft. away. Goggle-eyed officials at the meet in Victorville, Calif, decided to credit the burly (6 ft. 5 in., 245 Ibs.) senior with a toss of only 198 ft. 10 in. But that was still enough to smash the 1953 world record of Minnesota's Fortune Gordien by 4 ft. 4 in.

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