Monday, Aug. 15, 1955
Scoreboard
P: The third-place New York Giants jettisoned one of their once-great pitchers. Sal ("The Barber") Maglie, who failed to complete a game since June. Minus his old touch (95 wins, 42 losses), which helped take the Giants to two World Series ('51, '54), The Barber was sold to Cleveland for $10,000, was blasted for five runs in the first two innings of his first game for the Indians.
P:At Goshen, N.Y., in harness racing's Kentucky Derby, Scott Frost, a three-year-old California bay colt, took the $85,000 Hambletonian. Time for final heat: 2 min. 3/5 sec., only 3/5 sec. slower than the record set by the winner's sire, Hoot Mon, in 1947.
P:Aging (34) onetime Heavyweight Boxing Champ Ezzard Charles suffered the final indignity of losing a ten-round fight to dancing Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson, who shuffled, jumped and jabbed his way to a unanimous decision. Explained Loser Charles: "I loafed." P: As the Davis Cup challenge round drew near (Aug. 26-28), the U.S. tennis team suffered what might be a crippling blow: 24-year-old Tony Trabert, French and Wimbledon champion, was out of action with a pulled shoulder muscle. Unless he recovers, his two erratic teammates, Vic Seixas and Hamilton Richardson, will have difficulty hanging on to the hard-won trophy. Both men were beaten in the Eastern Grass Court Championship tournament at South Orange, N.J.
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