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P: Delayed seven weeks by rough weather and modifications to his sleek jet hydroplane Bluebird, Speedmerchant Donald Campbell tucked a cuddly teddybear mascot into the cockpit with him, roared up and down Lancashire's glassy Lake Coniston at an average speed of 248.62 m.p.h. to smash his own world record (239.07 m.p.h.), promptly declared his ultimate goals were 300 m.p.h. on water, 400 m.p.h. on land (v. the land record of 394.2 m.p.h. set at Bonneville, Utah, in 1947 by the late John Cobb). P: "Coaching football is a rotten life," said Michigan's mild-mannered Bennie Oosterbaan a couple of seasons back. "I'm on top now, and there is a lot of backslapping. But what of seasons to come? Let me lose the opener or a couple of other games next fall, and then watch how I'm blasted." An All-America end for three years running in his undergraduate days, Bennie is a gentle, unorthodox type who thinks a boy should pick a school and then play football, and this is contrary to recruiting doctrine these days in football's big time. This year Michigan managed only two victories (both by a single point) in its first seven games. Beset by injuries to key players and hanged in effigy by students, Bennie decided he had had enough, stepped down last week to be replaced by his backfield assistant, Chalmers ("Bump") Elliott, 33. P: To the cheers of a record crowd of 40,276 at Maryland's Laurel Race Course, the U.S.'s unsung Tudor Era led for the entire mile and a half, at the finish of the $100,000 Washington, D.C. International was apparently an easy 3 1/2length winner over the Australian entry Sailor's Guide. The University of Maryland band proudly played the national anthem. But the "objection" sign flashed on the tote board, and 21 agonizing minutes later Tudor Era was disqualified and Sailor's Guide named the winner. Explained Sailor's Guide Jockey Howard Grant: "Tudor Era kept riding me into the rail and I had to pull up. I said 'What is it with this cat?'" Ireland's ballyhooed favorite Ballymoss was third. The two much-publicized Russian horses were never serious factors, finished sixth and last.

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