Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 23, 1953

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¶ In Manhattan, two top-ranked heavyweights, heavy-footed Rex Layne (No. 3) and light-punching Roland LaStarza (No. 4), fought it out for the privilege of meeting Champion Rocky Marciano or Jersey Joe Walcott next summer. LaStarza, who lost a split decision to Marciano three years ago, won a split decision in a slam-banger over Layne.

¶ In Chicago, the University of Chicago basketball team, after a losing streak of 45 straight games over a three-year span, finally won one, 65-52, over a team from the Navy Pier Branch of the University of Illinois.

¶ In Manhattan, FBIman Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic steeplechase champion and 1952 Sullivan Award winner, added the national A.A.U. three-mile title to his trophies. Running against Germany's Herbert Schade, close-up finisher behind Czech Emil Zatopek in the Olympic 5,000-meter run, Ashenfelter won by 95 yds. in 13:47.5, just 1.8 seconds behind Greg Rice's 1942 record. Other A.A.U. champions: Mal Whitfield at 600 yds. in 1:10.4; Fred Dwyer at one mile, 4:12.4; Olympic Champion Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, his seventh straight 60-yd. hurdles title, in 7.3.

¶ At Rio de Janeiro, winding up a 13-day, 1,200-mile sail, the 46½-ft. yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist.