Monday, Aug. 02, 1954
Scoreboard
> In San Diego, Wimbledon and U.S. Women's Tennis Champion Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 19, went for a ride on her Tennessee walking horse, Colonel Merryboy, wound up pinned against a passing cement truck, and was rushed to the hospital with a broken bone in her left leg. With Little Mo out of action indefinitely, next month's national tournament at Forest Hills will be wide open.
> In St. Louis. Cardinal Manager Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky was fined $100 and set down five days for his part in a ballpark brawl with the Philadelphia Phillies. Said Stanky in a singular apology: "I know in my heart indirectly that I have embarrassed and hurt the St. Louis people, baseball nationally, and my reputation, of which I am very, very proud."
> In Florida, Ed Fisher, 26, outfitted himself with face mask and oxygen tanks, dived 30 ft. into calm, clear water off Key Largo, headed off hunger with raw fish and candy, surfaced 24 hr. 2 min. later with blue, wrinkled skin, a headache and a world endurance record for skin diving.
> At Larchmont, N.Y., in one of the big events of the sailing" year, the Anne Kathleen Cullen Memorial Trophy for the outstanding performance of Race Week went to a home-town boy: Dave Smalley, 19, crack skipper of a no-class sloop flying the colors of the Larchmont Yacht Club. At the tiller of his sleek International sloop Susan, Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr. edged out his archrival, Cornelius Shields, to take the Lawrence M. Marx Trophy.
> In New York, the league-leading Cleveland Indians demonstrated that this year they do not intend to fold in the stretch drive for the pennant, knocked off the threatening, second-place Yankees in a three-game series, 2-1.
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