Monday, Apr. 26, 1954
Scoreboard
P:In Detroit, the Red Wings won hockey's Stanley Cup for the third time in five years, beating the Montreal Canadiens four games to three in one of the roughest play-offs in hockey history. Hero of the series: little (5 ft. 7 in.) Red Wing Forward Tony Leswick, who broke up a "sudden death" overtime period in the final game by slamming a 40-ft. screen shot into the Canadien net.
P:At Tinsley Green, England, Woodcutter George Maynard, 82, led the marble masters of Sussex to an easy (33-16) victory in a match for the unofficial marble-shooting championship of the world. Sniping "knuckle down" from the taw circle, exactly as their Elizabethan ancestors did, the oldtimers shattered the pretensions of their challengers, a team of U.S. Navy sailors called the Grosvenor Gobs.
P:Jamaica, N.Y., C. V. Whitney's brown colt Fisherman, Hedley Woodhouse up, splashed to an easy win in the $30,000 Gotham Stakes.
P:In Boston, Finland's Veikko Karvonen, runner-up a year ago, won the annual (since 1897) Boston Marathon. Time: 2:20:39, one minute and 48 seconds off the record.
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