Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 27, 1959

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¶ Three Kentucky Derby favorites—First Landing, Atoll and Intentionally—broke fast and stayed in front for most of the running of the $88,100 Wood Memorial at New York's Jamaica race track. But the pace was too fast, and a 64-to-1 long shot named Manassa Mauler charged through on the inside, won by three-quarters of a length to take $55,915 first money.

¶ Boston fans were outraged and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People charged discrimination when the Red Sox, only major-league team that has never used Negro players, farmed out Shortstop Elijah Jerry ("Pumpsie") Green, who hit a respectable .327 in spring training but faded sadly toward season's opening. This week the Sox, who have never regularly employed a Negro in any capacity at Boston's Fenway Park, will plead to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination that Green needs more seasoning in the minors. From the sidelines came an unsolicited comment from ex-Dodger Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color line in the majors with Brooklyn twelve years ago. When he and two other Negroes got tryouts at Fenway Park back in 1945, recalled Jackie: "We were told they never saw anybody do so well in a tryout, and that's the last thing we were told. There's no question that if the Red Sox wanted [a Negro player] they could find one."

¶ Scarcely a week after Eddie Erdelatz resigned as head football coach, apparently in pique at Academy refusal to give athletes special privileges, Navy picked his successor: Wayne Hardin, 32, for four years backfield coach under Erdelatz. Captain Slade Cutter, Navy's athletic director, pointedly described Hardin as "a man who knows the problems at the Naval Academy and sympathizes with them."

¶ Aided by a 12-m.p.h. wind that made his effort unofficial, Abilene Christian's Bill Woodhouse, 21, did the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., became the third man to reach such a clocking. The others: ex-Southern California Star Mel Patton, and Bobby Morrow, a former Woodhouse teammate at Abilene Christian.