Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 11, 1957

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¶ Seamen who sail under the "Red Duster" of the British merchant marine have borne that ensign proudly over all the world's oceans. But last week some swabbies from the Cunard liner Queen Mary drifted onto a lee shore and scuttled their pride in one of the dockside saloons of Manhattan's Twelfth Avenue. A boatload of deck apes from the S.S. United States, led by deadeye "Tex" Rozelle, challenged the visitors to a round of darts, and whipped the limeys at their own sport, five games to four. Britannia's seapower had not known such disgrace since the United States captured the North Atlantic speed championship back in 1952.

¶ After watching his beautiful bay colt Stephanotis stumble out of the money in last year's Epsom Derby, Hungarian-born International Banker Arpad Plesch decided that the animal had heart trouble. And he could think of no better heart specialist than President Eisenhower's own, Dr. Paul Dudley White. "His hobby is looking at cardiograms of horses," said Plesch, so he sent Dr. White an electronic tracing of Stephanotis' heartbeat. The good doctor, who also takes an interest in the tickers of whales, took one look and pronounced the colt fit. Reassured, Stephanotis won last week's classic Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket and earned an invitation to Laurel (Md.) for the Washington, D.C. International later this month.

¶ His trip to Tokyo should have been a relaxing diversion for crack Amateur Golfer Frank Pace Jr. President of the General Dynamics Corp. and onetime Secretary of the Army, Pace was simply a spectator, watching Japan's Torakichi Nakamura and Koichi Ono win the International Golf Association's Canada Cup (TIME, Nov. 4). But after viewing the wearing competition, Golfer Pace donned his other hat, spoke out as president of the I.G.A., and proposed in all seriousness that matches should be cut from 18 to twelve holes. After this revolution on the links, argued Pace, the player would no longer arrive home worn out and grouchy. Courses would be less crowded as men teed off on holes 1, 7 and 13. "Everyone would be happier," said Pace, "the player's secretary, his wife, even the man himself."