Monday, Oct. 18, 1954
Scoreboard
P:At New York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity.
P: In Manhattan, the Davis Cup selection committee named the players who will go to Australia for the interzone final and the challenge round. In one more effort to bring home the cup, the U.S. will send the same team that failed to do the job last winter: Captain William F. Talbert, U.S. Champion Vic Seixas, former U.S. champion Tony Trabert and Intercollegiate Champion Ham Richardson.
P: In Vienna, as the Russian team piled up an unbeatable lead in the world weight-lifting championships, Russian Featherweight Fedor Tshimishkian set a new world record by lifting a total of 770 lbs.
P: In Cleveland, just 22 years after she won her first Olympic title, Stella Walsh, 43, piled up 1,738 points in strenuous competition for the U.S. women's pentathlon championship and won that title for the fifth time.
P: At Champaign, Ill., unbeaten Ohio State corralled Illinois' All-America Candidate J. C. Caroline, turned loose their own scat back, Bobby Watkins, and made a bid for the Big Ten championship by outrunning the Illini, 40-7. At Madison, Wis., Alan ("the Horse") Ameche battered the Rice line for two touchdowns as Wisconsin won, 13-7. In Dallas, for all their fumbles, the Oklahoma Sooners beefed up their claim to collegiate football's top rank by beating Texas, 14-7. In the Ivy League, Harvard's Crimson outshaded the Big Red of Cornell in a surprising upset, 13-12; Yale outlasted Columbia, 13-7, and Princeton squeezed past Penn by the same score.
P: In St. Louis, the Sporting News polled sportswriters, umpires and players to determine the major leagues' Rookies of the Year. The winners: the St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting outfielder, Wally Moon (TIME, Aug. 23), and the New York Yankees' 20-game-winning pitcher, Bob Grim.
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