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Show Here NT There Paul (Bear) Bryant, the football coach Alabama University is count- v Ing on to put the Tide teams back in the national spotlight, has the ninth-best coaching; record of any coach at 108 major colleges in the nation. The record doesn't tell the whole story, either. Bryant took over head coaching Jobs at Maryland, Mary-land, Kentucky, and Texas A & M when football was at Its lowest. His record for 13 years: 91-39-8 (.688 per cent) . . . Bryon Pool and Lonnle Kirkpatrlck of Carmi, 111., smashed their own record when they won the 1,069-mile Mississippi Mis-sissippi River Marathon for out-boards out-boards from New Orleans to St. Louis. Their time: 29 hours, 29. minutes fastest any man, boat or motor ever made the trip. The second place finishers were less than three minutes behind. Twenty-eight boats from nine states started the race and the first nine finishers beat the race record of 44 hours, 19 minutes, set by Pool and Kirkpatrlck in last year's race. OS ROAD TO RECOVERY . . . Dodger catcher Roy Campanella at his first open press conference confer-ence since he was paralyzed in an auto accident on January 28. |