Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 3, 1959

¶ The touring U.S. all-star team was built around Backstroke Flash Frank Mc-Kinney of Indiana University, but the Japanese were waiting in Tokyo with some swimmers of their own. Freestyler Tsuyoshi (“Strong Will”) Yamanaka, 20, won the 200 meters (2:02.3), the 400 meters (4:22.3), the 800 meters (9:09.7), and the 1,500 meters (17:47.5). Final score: Japan, 41; U.S., 38. At a second meet, Yamanaka lowered the 400-meter record by 2.4 sec. to 4:16.6, then anchored the 800-meter relay team as it broke its own world record by 2.9 sec. with a startling time of 8:18.7. But McKinney splashed home in 2:17.8 to better his own world record for the 200 meters by .1 sec., and the U.S. team won, 37-33. Said U.S. Coach Willis Casey: “By the 1960 Olympics, both the Japanese and the U.S. will have come up to the Australians.”

¶ His super-powered 1.7-liter midget racing car, designed for level, oval tracks, had only one gear, seemed hopelessly outclassed on the looping, hilly mile-and-a-half course. But after his mechanics had lowered his single-gear ratio to get more speed, husky Rodger Ward, 38, needed only the same heavy foot that won him this year’s Indianapolis 500 to lead the pack across the finish line in a 150-mile free-formula race at Lime Rock, Conn.

¶ Patient and precise, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Bernard (“Tut”) Bartzen, 31, from Dallas, retrieved shot after shot at Chicago’s River Forest Tennis Club, finally put away San Jose State’s Whitney Reed, 26, by the score of 6-0, 8-6, 7-5, to keep his U.S. clay-court championship, and to prove again that he is without peer on clay, where the balls bounce high and true, although he may be an also-ran on grass, where the shots skid low and hard.