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P: A week after he ran a 3:58 mile, fastest ever turned by an American, bantam-sized Jim Beatty, 25, smashed the American mark for the 5,000 meters by 11.9 sec., with a time of 13:51.7, to give the U.S. its first strong candidate in the Olympic event in years, although Beatty is still far from the world record of 13:35 held by Russia's Vladimir Kuts.

P: Every team in the majors wanted Catcher Dick Dietz, 18, when he graduated from high school in Greenville, S.C. with a wife, a daughter, two awards as an all-state halfback and a batting average of .426, but the San Francisco Giants last week signed up the 6-ft.-1-in., 195-lb. slugger with a bonus of $85,000.

P: Fresh from winning the French tennis championship, California's stocky, bullet-hitting Darlene Hard, 24, swept past Britain's Rita Bentley, 6-3, 6-3, to win the Northern England title, warm up for her big test this month at Wimbledon.

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