Monday, Sep. 07, 1953
Scoreboard
P: In West Barrington. R.I., Confederate flags replaced the traditional red flags used to show where tournament players' golf balls lie in the rough. In the all-Southern final of the National Women's Amateur golf championship were Fort Worth's Polly Riley. 27, and Mary Lena Faulk. 27. of Thomasville, Ga. After firing a brilliant morning round of 73 strokes at the Rhode Island Country Club (women's par: 74), Georgia's Faulk wobbled somewhat in the broiling (100DEG) afternoon, but held enough of her morning edge to beat Texan Riley, 3 and 2.
P: At Roosevelt Raceway, N.Y., the Arden Homestead Stable's Florican, a six-year-old trotter with nothing to show for eight previous starts this year, went as a 15-to-1 shot into the invitational $25,000 American Trotting Championship. When the mile-and-a-quarter trot was over, Florican had not only picked up a $12,500 winner's purse but had also smashed the world mark for the distance by more than four seconds with a time of 2:33.
P: On Long Island Sound, the Riverside (Conn.) Yacht Club's four-girl crew, skippered by Judy Webb, made the most of light breezes to take three out of six races in 210-Class sailboats. With a final point standing of 31 3/4 to the runnerup Lake Geneva (Wis.) Yacht Club's 25 1/4, Riverside won its second National Women's Sailing championship.
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