Monday, Jun. 02, 1958

Scoreboard

P:Ohio State's Olympian Glenn Davis was easily the star of the Big Ten track championships at Lafayette, Ind. Running around two turns of the carefully tamped track, Davis was clocked in 0:45.8, tying the 440-yd. world's record set in 1956 by another U.S. Olympian. California's Jim Lea. Davis' performance was all the more impressive since Lea set his mark running out of a chute at Modesto, Calif., was slowed down by only one turn. Big Ten team champion: Illinois. Second: the Hoosiers of Indiana.

P:Swift-running Lincoln Road, the honest little dark bay colt that made his reputation running second to Tim Tarn in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, finally ran in front all the way. Without Calumet's killer to catch him in the last furlong, Lincoln Road fought off determined opposition to stay ahead of the field from flagfall to finish in Garden State's $59,100 Jersey Stakes, whipped Ada L. Rice's Talent Show by a safe length and a quarter.

P:Slumping in the American League cellar, the demoralized Detroit Tigers still managed to collect a league record. Lumbering Outfielder Gus Zernial stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the last of the eighth inning in a game with the Yankees, sighted in on one of Relief Pitcher Ryne Duren's fast balls and belted it into the stands for a home run. It was not enough to win the game (Yanks 5, Tigers 4), but it was Zernial's eighth pinch-hit homer, one more than the previous league mark he had shared with Boston's Ted Williams.

P:Switching lineups as steadily (but never as successfully) as Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, the St. Louis Cardinals' Fred Hutchinson finally decided that Bonus Baby Dick Schofield belonged at short, that Outfielder Ken Boyer belonged on third. And that left no place for Veteran Al Dark, the aging (35) utility infielder St. Louis got from the Giants in 1956. Rounding out his twelfth season in the majors, Dark went to his fourth team, the Chicago Cubs, in an even trade for Jim Brosnan, a husky (6 ft. 4 1/2 in., 215 lbs.) righthanded pitcher.

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