Monday, Jun. 01, 1953

Scoreboard

P:At Ames, Iowa, Kansas Olympian Wes Santee, winging around the track in the Big Seven championships, set a new collegiate mile record of 4:06.3, clipping four-tenths of a second off the old mark set by another famed Kansan, Glenn Cunningham, in 1934.

P:In Madison, N.J., an imported Welsh terrier named Topflight Template of Twin Ponds outclassed 2,611 other entries to win the Morris & Essex Dog Show, biggest in the U.S.

P:At Pittsburgh, National Open Golf Champion Julius Boros shot a 2-under-par 70 at the Oakmont Country Club, scene of this month's Open, against some 100,000 U.S., Canadian and Mexican golfers in the second annual LIFE and P.G.A.-sponsored National Golf Day for the benefit of U.S.O. and the National Golf Fund. Among the 10,000-odd golfers who beat Boros with the aid of handicaps were General Omar Bradley (81-12--69) and a six-year-old Orlando, Fla. boy named Bernie Bender (113-45--68).

P:At Newport Beach, Calif., the California crew won the Western Sprint Championship for the third year in a row, beating Stanford by 4.2 seconds.

P:At Fort Worth, bantam Ben Hogan, coming from behind with rounds of 73, 71, 71 and 67, won the $25,000 Colonial golf tournament.

P:In Tokyo, skinny (5 ft. 5 in., 112 lbs.) World Flyweight Champion Yoshio Shirai successfully defended his title against the Philippines' Tanny Campo in a plodding 15-round bout.

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