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P: Timing his rhythmic swing perfectly, Ted Williams, 41, of the Boston Red Sox drove the ball over the left-centerfield fence in Cleveland for the sooth home run of his 22-year career, now trails only Babe Ruth (714), Jimmy Foxx (534) and Mel Ott (511).

P: Stung by midseason defeats, Harvard's crew regained some prestige by a seven-length trouncing of Yale in the annual four-mile pull down Connecticut's Thames River, while California beat Navy by a length in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Syracuse. P: After his talent-loaded San Francisco Giants had lost three straight to the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates and dropped four games behind, Owner Horace Stoneham fired long-suffering Bill Rigney as manager, brought in Tom Sheehan, 66, chief scout and onetime minor-league manager, with the cold promise that the job was his as long as the Giants won.

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