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P: Three times before Sugar Ray Robinson had won back his middleweight championship in rematches, but the greatest craftsman of his day was only a floundering 40-year-old as he tried to regain the comic-opera title of New York and Massachusetts from a pug named Paul Pender. After losing a split decision in Boston, even the Sugar seemed to feel he was finished: "I just didn't have what it takes. I didn't do nothing. I lost."

P: Reviled by home-town sportswriters and nerve weary with defeat, Manager Billy Jurges first was ordered by doctors to take an extended rest, then was fired by the last-place Boston Red Sox. Jurges' successor: Pinky Higgins, the old Detroit Tiger third baseman, who managed the Red Sox from 1955 until last July, when he was yanked off the job with the club wallowing in last place and made a special assistant to Owner Tom Yawkey.

P: A six-time winner of the event, Ellis Knowles, 73, turned the rare golfing trick of shooting a lower score than his age when he came home witn a round of 72, had another of 73 to finish a creditable third in the overall standings of the U.S. Senior Golf Association championship in his home town of Rye, N.Y. The winner: California's 57-year-old John Dawson, who took his third straight title with a two-round total of 141.

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