Monday, Mar. 08, 1954
Scoreboard
P: At Miami, Harry Guggenheim's Turn-to, an Irish-bred bay colt, ran away with Hialeah's $133,600 Flamingo Stakes, winning by 3 1/2 lengths from eight other three-year-olds. Time for the mile-and-one-eighth: a fast-footed 1:49 2/5.
P: At Arcadia. Calif., the King Ranch's Rejected, dead last at the three-quarter-mile mark, came on with a rush to win the mile-and-a-quarter $143,000 Santa Anita Handicap by a length plus in 2: 00 3/5
P: In Manhattan, Yale University's track team, scoring heavily in the field events, won the I.C-4-A indoor track meet (40 colleges competing), beating Runner-Up Boston University, 19-18 1/2.
P: At Cincinnati, the Duquesne University basketball team, winner of 22 straight and voted the No. 1 team in the U.S. (TIME, March 1). finally came a cropper at the hands of the University of Cincinnati, 66-52. Next night Duquesne lost again, 64-54, to Dayton.
P: In St. Petersburg,the New York Yankees sold expensive (salary: $40,000) Pitcher Vic Raschi, 34, to the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League. Raschi, who won 13 while losing six last season, had balked at a salary cut, and the Yankees, said General Manager George Weiss, were fed up with "independently wealthy men, who, through the winning of five pennants and world championships, have become too complacent." Within four days, Holdouts Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford agreed to sign their Yankee contracts.
P: In Sydney, Australia's Olympic Champion Marjorie Jackson set a women's 220-yard-dash record in a flashy 24 seconds flat, breaking the record of 24.2 set by The Netherlands' Fanny Blankers-Koen.
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