Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 8, 1954

¶ In Manhattan, American League owners listened to the simmering squabble about the future of the Philadelphia Athletics (TIME, Aug. 16), discovered that Connie Mack and his sons, Roy and Earle, could not agree on the future of the team, called all deals off and went home. As for the A's, they still had no home. ¶ At New Jersey's Garden State Park, Mrs. Russell A. Firestone's beautiful bay colt, Summer Tan, slogged through sloppy going in the Garden State Stakes, needed little help from Jockey Eric Guerin to win the world's richest ($269,965) horse race. Summer Tan's share of the purse: $151,095.75. ¶ At Harrisburg, Pa., a team of sharp Spanish riders ran up a three-day total of only twelve faults in nine international jumping classes, to win the 104th Cavalry Challenge Trophy at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show. Second: Mexico, with 16½ faults. Third: the U.S. team, which had won the cup for four years running, with 24 faults. ¶ In Texas, where interracial prizefights are prohibited on the theory that they might start race riots, a Court of Civil Appeals ruled against the state, agreed with Negro Boxer I. H. ("Sporty") Harvey that the 14th Amendment guarantees him the right to occasional bouts with his white brothers. ¶ In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the New York Knickerbockers got the professional basketball season off to a fast and early start. The deft passing of Dick McGuire and the deadly shooting of Carl Braun added up to a surprising victory over the championship Minneapolis Lakers, 94-83.