Monday, Jan. 18, 1960
Scoreboard
P: Australia's Prodigy Ilsa Konrads, 15, clipped 3.2 sec. off the world's record to win the 440-yd. freestyle event in 4:45.4 at the New South Wales swimming championships. Swimmer Konrads' time also eclipsed the record for 400 meters, ran her collection of world freestyle championships to six: 800 meters, 880 yds., 1,500 meters and 1,650 yds.
P: Declaring themselves disgusted with the "hoodlum influence" in boxing, California's State Athletic Commission pulled out of the National Boxing Association, threatened to set up an independent boxing association of NBA dissidents with authority enough to root out underworld figures.
P: Statistically the No. 2 passer in the country last season (132 completions in 232 tries), though ignored by All-America selectors, the University of Cincinnati's Quarterback Jack Lee proved what he could do in the eleventh annual Senior Bowl game in Mobile, Ala., completed 13 of 21 throws for 283 yds. and two touch downs, was unanimously voted the game's outstanding player as the North belted the South 26-7.
P: There were 29 football deaths last season, the highest since 1947's total of 30, reported Los Angeles State College's Dr. Floyd Eastwood in his annual survey last week. Of the 18 deaths resulting directly from injury on the fields, sand-lot football, rated the most dangerous, accounted for six. But seven died in high school practice or play, two in the semi-pro leagues, and three in college. Of the eleven deaths indirectly associated with football, four were attributed to heat exhaustion: three high school players and one college player (Charles Lohr of the University of Maryland) died of heat exhaustion after practice in hot weather.
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