Monday, May. 17, 1954

Scoreboard

P: At Philadelphia, Navy's Olympic Champion crew, still almost intact from its 1952 triumph at Helsinki, showed its wake to two of the East's undefeated eights, beating Pennsylvania by a length, Harvard by two, for their 24th straight victory.

P: In New York, making a 1954 debut, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's great grey colt Native Dancer, odds-on (3-20), romped off with Belmont Park's $15,000 Commando Purse. The race was a warmup for this week's Metropolitan, first event in racing's handicap triple crown, where the Dancer will carry 130 lbs.

u| At White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Herman Scharlau, a pro proteg of Tommy Armour, won the Greenbrier Open golf tournament in a sudden-death play-off against Home Pro Sammy Snead. Scharlau, 33, won his first major tournament victory (and $2,000) when Snead flubbed a 2-ft. putt.

P:At Ardmore, Okla., former National Open Champion Julius Boros, with rounds of 68, 69, 72, 70 (total: one under par), won the Ardmore Open.

P: At Lawrence, Kans., Miler Wes Santee ignored his specialty to set an intercollegiate record of 8:58 for two miles. Old (1936) record: 8:58.3, set by Indiana's Don Lash.

P: At Westhampton Beach, N.Y., Bill Eager of Newark, N.J.. driving his Maserati at a 92.5-m.p.h. average, won the 150-mile Suffolk County Air Force Base race.

P: The National Collegiate Athletic Association, tracking down "tryout" coddling of prospective lettermen, cracked down on seven colleges. Penalties ranging from reprimand up to one year's banishment from all tournament basketball play were levied against North Carolina State, Kansas State, Seton Hall, Hardin-Simmons, Texas Tech, West Texas State and Arizona.

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