Monday, Aug. 23, 1954
Scoreboard
P: In Chicago, Bob Toski, 27, hard-hitting, 127-lb. pro from Livingston, N.J., shot a steady 14-under-par for a null total of 274 to win the Tam O'Shanter World Championship of Golf and a first prize worth $100,000 in cash and exhibition fees. Tied for second, just one stroke and $90,000 behind: Texan Earl Stewart and New Yorker Jack Burke.
P: At Saratoga Springs, N.Y., everything was breaking right for Horseman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney. In the first two weeks of the Saratoga meeting, his thoroughbreds started in 25 races, were first under the wire three times in a single afternoon, carried his Eton blue and brown silks to victory a total of 14 times.
P: At Newport, R.I., Intercollegiate Tennis Champion Hamilton Richardson, 20, sixth ranking player in the U.S., fought through a four-hour final, longest of the grass-court season, outlasted Pasadena's Straight Clark, 29, for the Newport invitation title, 6-3, 9-7, 12-14, 6-8, 10-8. Shot through with upsets, the tournament saw such top-seeded players as the U.S.'s Vic Seixas, Australia's Wimbledon Finalist Kenneth Rosewall and his Davis Cup teammate, Lewis Hoad, all beaten badly in early rounds.
P: In Chicago, the Detroit Lions, National Football League Champions last year, agreed to the intercollegiate limited-substitution rule, played an exhibition game of one-platoon football with the College All-Stars, kept their regular quarterback, Bobby Layne, on the bench, and still outshone the Stars in every department. Final score: 31-6.
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