Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 29, 1954

¶ In the Florida spring, the Brooklyn Dodgers did something they seem unable to do in the fall: won a series from the New York Yankees, three games to one. Particular Dodger star: Pitcher Don Newcombe, back from the Army, who pitched six hitless innings in one game.

¶ In Los Angeles, a pair of youngsters who are veterans in figure-skating competition waltzed off with U.S. titles. In the men's division, World Champion Hayes Alan Jenkins, 20, won his second straight U.S. title; in the women's division, former World Champion Tenley Albright, 18, took her third straight. ¶ In London, another U.S. girl, Judy Devlin, 18, won the All-England women's badminton title, considered the world championship. Men's winner, for the second straight year:Malaya's Eddie Choong. ¶ At Hallandale, Fla., a California-bred colt popped up as a serious contender for Kentucky Derby honors. Robert S. Lytle's Correlation, Champion Jockey Willie Shoemaker up, won the $146,250 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park by a length from the Woodvale Farm's favored (2-1) Goyamo, Eddie Arcaro up. ¶ In Manhattan, FBI-Men Horace Ash-enfelter, holder of the world indoor two-mile record, and Fred Wilt, who helped him set it (TIME, Feb. 22), hooked up in a two-mile duel in the final indoor track meet of the season. For the first time in 16 indoor tries against Wilt, Ashenfelter won. Time: 8:58.5, eight seconds off his record.

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