Monday, Jul. 06, 1953
Scoreboard
P:At Wimbledon, Australian tennis suffered an unexpected bump in the quarterfinals when Ken Rosewall was upset by Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, and Lewis Hoad was beaten by Philadelphia's Vic Seixas.
P:In Ogden, Utah, aging (36) Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore outpointed Joey Maxim, 31, from whom he took the title last December, to win a 15-round decision.
P:In Dundee, Scotland, U.S. Open Golf Champion Ben Hogan, warming up for the British Open, arched Scottish eyebrows by posting consecutive scores of 69 and 70 for his first two practice rounds on the rugged, 7,200-yd Carnoustie course. Record for the course in tournament competition: 70.
P:In the Newport-to-Annapolis ocean race, the 73-ft. yawl Bolero, captained by John Nicholas Brown, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and with famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields serving as first mate, raced and outran a squall, finished her 466-mile run in a near calm to win in an elapsed 87 hr. 34 min. 42 sec.
P:At Aqueduct race track, Greentree Stable's four-year-old Tom Fool, Ted Atkinson up, won the seven-furlong, $59,800 Carter Handicap in a time that equaled the track record, 1:22, despite the formidable assigned weight of 135 Ibs.
P:At the Rochester (N.Y.) Country Club, Betsy Rawls tied the women's-course record with a 71 to beat, Mrs. Jackie Pung, who carded a 77, in an 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Women's Open golf championship.
P:At the Royal Porthcawl course in Wales. Canadian Golfer Marlene Stewart, 19, shot a blazing 72 in the first 18 holes of the British null Amateur championship final, went on to trounce Eire's Philomena Garvey, 7 and 6, for the title.
P:After winning three Air Medals for flying 38 missions in Korea, Marine Captain Ted Williams, 35, on military leave from his $100,000-a-year job with the Boston Red Sox, was ordered back to the U.S. In order, Panther-Jet Pilot Williams is expected to receive 1) treatment for a stubborn ear-and-nose ailment, 2) his release from service. Baseball? Says Ted: "It [will] be one tough struggle to get back into shape."
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