Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 29, 1955

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¶ When they lost a twelve-inning game to the New York Giants, 14-9, the Pittsburgh Pirates achieved a dubious distinction: they became the first major league team to be eliminated mathematically from the runaway National League pennant race. With only 32 games left, the Pirates stood 35 games back of the league-leading Dodgers (who were 12 games ahead of the second-place Braves).

¶ Not satisfied simply with winning the Canadian 400-yd. medley relay championship, the Walter Reed Hospital Swim Club team (TIME, Apr. 18) set a world record besides. Splashing in perfect form through the University of McGill pool in Montreal, Mary Jane Sears, 15, Wanda Werner, 14, Shelley Mann, 17, and Susan "Dougie" Gray, 15, covered the distance in 4:30.5, nearly two seconds faster than the old record they had set themselves.

¶ Taking time out from his racing cars, Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham, flying the burgee of the Pequot Yacht Club on his trim sloop Spindrift, won the National Atlantic Class sailing championship at the Sea Cliff (L.I.) Yacht Club. Second: Cunningham's clubmate Hoyt Perry. Third: Novelist John (The Watt) Hersey.

¶ Using all his carefully controlled skill against the league-leading Dodgers, Robin Roberts, best right-hander of the feeble fourth-place Phillies, beat big Don Newcombe, 3-2, and became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this season.

¶ Husky Arnold Palmer, 25, a professional golfer for less than a year, shot a fine 265 for 72 holes on Toronto's Weston Golf Club. His 23-under-par total, just two strokes over the tournament record, won him the $15,000 Canadian Open championship.