Monday, Mar. 09, 1953
Scoreboard
P: In Manhattan, Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield added two more indoor records to his winter bag: 1:09.5 for the 600-yard indoor (breaking the 1:10.2 record he matched last month), and, along the way, 1:02.9 for the 500 meters (slicing 1 1/2 seconds off the existing record).
P: In Miami, Greentree Stable's Straight Face romped home in Hialeah's $153,600 Flamingo Stakes, the richest race ever run for three-year-olds.
P: In Arcadia, Calif., Calumet Farms' Mark-Ye-Well won the $135,000 Santa Anita Handicap by a head, bringing the classic to Calumet for the first time in the stable's four tries.
P: At Dayton, Ohio, after setting a major-college record of 27 straight victories, the Seton Hall basketball team finally came a cropper on No. 28, lost to Dayton University, 71-65.
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