Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 2, 1953
¶At Steamboat Springs, Colo., with leaps of 276 and 289 ft.plus almost flawless formArt Tokle of Chicago's Norge Ski' Club won the national ski-jumping championship. And in Ishpeming, Mich., racing through a near blizzard, Norman Oakbig of Bush Lake, Minn, took the North American cross-country (10 mile) championship in 1:10:11.
¶In Miami, six-year-old Oil Capitol of Hasty House Farms stole the $130,400 Widener Handicap from Hampton Stables' Alerted and George Widener's Battlefield in a photo finish.
¶In Arcadia, Calif., Calumet Farms' Chanlea (Eddie Arcaro up) won the $131,000 Santa Anita Derby in a photo finish.
¶In Manhattan, Villanova's unbeaten miler, Fred Dwyer, set a new I.C.4-A record of 4:08.1, the fastest indoor mile of the season.
¶In Los Angeles, in a "deliberately arranged mismatch," John Barber, 6 ft. 6 in. center for Los Angeles State College, playing nothing but offense, scored 188 points in a basketball game against Los Angeles' Chapman College. Final score: 208-82. The game, explained State College Coach Sax Elliott, was his answer to Rio Grande's Bevo (116 points) Francis.
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