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>> Over the historic Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England (first run in 1839), a 28-1 outsider, Kilmore, galloped home a winner by ten lengths, collecting $56,666, the biggest purse ever, for English Owner Nat Cohen. The twelve-year-old bay gelding, oldest horse to win in 39 years, slogged over a course made treacherous by rain, snow and hail that dumped 15 of the 32-horse starting field, was followed by Wyndburgh (starting odds 45-1), Mr. What (22-1) and Guy Navaree (100-1). The favorite, last year's winner Nicolaus Silver (8-1), lumbered home seventh.

>> Driving superbly, Britain's Stirling Moss was leading the 1 2-hour endurance race at Sebring, Fla. and had the race all but won when officials flagged down his flame-red Ferrari and disqualified him.

The reason: three hours before, when Moss pulled into the pits for brake re pairs, an unthinking mechanic had also filled his gas tank. Bitterly angry at the judges' decision, Moss did not stay around to watch another Ferrari driven by Jo Bonnier and Lucien Bianchi win the race.

Said he: "That was a bloody awful way to lose.">> Unhappy at being shipped off to a minor-league team for part of last season, this winter Montreal's masked Goalie Jacques Plante (TIME, Nov. 24) knuckled down to work. He played the full 70-game schedule for the first time in his nine-year National Hockey League career, allowed only 2.37 goals a game, easily won the Vezina Trophy -- awarded to the league's best goal tender -- for the sixth time in the last seven seasons. In the N.H.L.

scoring race, New York's Andy Bathgate and Chicago's Bobby Hull wound up in a tie with 84 points apiece (including goals and assists), but the title went to Hull, who had scored more goals.

>> Overshadowed most of the season by Philadelphia's towering Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who outscored him 4,029 to 1,436, Boston's lanky Bill Rus sell (TIME, Dec. 22) still won the Na tional Basketball Association's Most Val uable Player award for his sparkling de fensive play. As if to prove that the award was no fluke, Russell held Wilt to 35 points, scored 31 himself while the Eastern Champion Celtics romped over Chamberlain's Warriors, 129-114, in the N.B.A. playoffs.

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