Monday, Aug. 10, 1953
Scoreboard
P:At Wissant, France. Channel Swimmer Abdel Litif Abou Heif, 23, after swimming four miles to help his Egyptian teammates set a new cross-channel-relay record (10:51), dove right back into the swim and set a new England-France record of his own: 13:45. The U.S.'s Florence Chadwick, who hoped to make it both ways nonstop, got seasick and was pulled out of the water after ten hours.
P: At Rye, N.Y., paced by the U.S.'s Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, U.S., Wimbledon and Australian tennis champion, a U.S. team successfully defended the Wightman Cup for the 17th straight time since 1930 (7-0). from a quartet of British girls.
P: In his home town of Birmingham. Ala., Charles Boswell, who lost his eyesight from a direct hit in World War II, won the annual blind golfers' tournament for the sixth time in a row (with a caddy lining up clubs for him and telling him the distance to the cup). His score for 36 holes: 212.
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