Monday, May. 25, 1953
Scoreboard
P: In Washington, in the first major crew race held on the Potomac--and the first ever televised--Navy's Olympic champions won their igth straight and the Eastern Sprint championship, beating Harvard by a third of a length. Other finishers, in order: Wisconsin, Cornell, Columbia, Penn.
P: At Seattle, completely reversing last year's order of finish, the University of Washington's varsity, j.v. and freshman crews whipped California's by margins up to eleven lengths. Washington, now pride of the West, will meet undefeated Navy next month at the Syracuse Regatta.
P:At Belmont Park. N.Y., in a warm up for this week's Preakness, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, 1-20 favorite in a three-horse race, won the $32,150 Withers Stakes, one mile in a brisk 1:363-.
P:At Westbury, N.Y., Memphis Dentist Cary Middlecoff started off with a respectable 70, shot a 6-under-par 64 for a course record, then ran off the next three rounds 66-67-66, to win the Palm Beach invitation golf tournament from 15 of the world's top pros.
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