Friday, Apr. 30, 1965
Who Won
> Morio Shigematsu, 25: the 69th Boston Marathon, pit-patting over the grueling 26-mi. 385-yd. course in 2 hrs. 16 min. 33 sec. to clip a full 2 min. off the record set two years ago by Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche; at Boston. Shigematsu led a parade of his countrymen across the line; Japanese took second, third, fifth and sixth places as well. Vandendriessche wound up fourth; first U.S. runner to finish was Ralph Buschmann in seventh place.
> Lucky Debonair: the $30,400 Blue Grass Stakes, tune-up for this week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs.
> Warren Spahn, 44: a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers; in Los Angeles. Traded to the New York Mets by the Milwaukee Braves after a dismal 1964 season in which he won only six games, the winningest pitcher in baseball today struck out two men in the ninth inning to cut off a Dodger rally, rack up the 357th victory of his major-league career.
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