Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 8, 1953
¶ In Hoylake, England, on the Royal Liverpool golf course, an Irish clothing merchant named Joe Carr beat the defending champion, the U.S.'s Harvie Ward, 2 up, for the British amateur championship.
¶ At Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's Tom Fool broke fast, led all the way to win the mile-and-a-quarter $58,000 Suburban Handicap by a nose. His time: a scorching 2:00 3/5, the second fastest time in the handicap's 67-year history.
¶ At Randalls Island, N.Y., Manhattan College took the I.C.4-A track and field title, for the second year in a row, with a total of 42 points. Second: Columbia, 22 points. Third: Army, 14½ points.
¶ In Paris. 18-year-old Kenneth Rosewall, Australia's national tennis champion, ran roughshod over the U.S.'s second-ranking amateur, Vic Seixas, to win the French title, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. In an all-American final, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly defeated Doris Hart, 6-2, 6-4, for the women's title.
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