Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 8, 1958

¶ Running with the same awesome power that set a world's mile record of 3:54-5 last month, Aussie Herb Elliott sprinted the last 300 meters in 40.5 sec., was clocked at 3:36 for 1,500 meters in Göteborg, Sweden, to cut the world's record by a whopping 2.1 sec. Next day he ran the mile in 3:58, his ninth under four minutes.

¶ In the third and decisive heat at DuQuoin (Ill.) State Fair, a filly named Emily's Pride stepped out swiftly and surely at the touch of 64-year-old Driver Flick Nipe, trotted the mile in the race-record time of 1:59.8 to win the 33rd Hambletonian and $62,750 of the $106,719 prize money.

¶ Driving his aluminum-clad streamliner powered by two souped-up Chrysler engines with a total of 850 h.p., Marion ("Mickey") Thompson, 29, a pressman for the Los Angeles Times, whistled at 272.3 m.p.h. over Utah's Bonneville salt flats in the 10th national speed trials, the fastest speed ever recorded by an American driver or an American-built car.