Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 29, 1953

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¶ In London, America's top-ranking tennis player, 39-year-old Gardnar Mulloy, angrily hurled his racket at a linesman and stormed off the Queens Club court after he was beaten, 6-8, 7-5, 8-6, by Australian Rex Hartwig, an unseeded player, in the London tennis tournament. Fumed Mulloy: "I should have won. I was robbed."*

¶ In New York, Yankee Johnny Mize became the 93rd player in major-league history to hit safely 2,000 times. The only other members of the 2,000-hit club in active service: Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Elliott of the Chicago White Sox.

¶ In Boston, during a seventh-inning bombardment of the last-place Detroit Tigers, the Red Sox 1) scored 17 runs, three of them by Catcher Sammy White, 2) clouted 14 hits, three of them by Leftfielder Gene Stephens, to set four modern baseball records for hits & runs in a single inning. Boston's winning score: 23 to 3.

¶ At Kings Point, N.Y., Harvard's Charles S. Hoppin and James Nathanson breezed off with the national intercollegiate dinghy sailing trophy for the second straight year.