Sport: Scoreboard, may 28, 1956
¶ For most of four rounds in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field, Bobo Olson draped himself all over Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, but eventually he made the big mistake: for a split second he uncovered his teacup jaw. One lethal left hook and Bobo was a has-been, Sugar Ray, 36, still champ.
¶ Kentucky Derby Winner Needles was closing fast down the short stretch of Maryland's Pimlico race track, but Calumet Farm's Fabius had enough left to hold off the favorite. When the furlongs faded out, Fabius was winner of the $132,800 Preakness by a length and three-quarters.
¶ Charging into a mild (3 m.p.h.) head wind, Duke's fleet-footed, redheaded Blue Devil, David Sime (TIME, May 21), ran the 100-yd. dash in a world-record-tying 0:09.3 at the Carolina A.A.U. meet in Raleigh, N.C.
¶ Paced smartly by veteran Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Leslie Combs's Nashua romped to an easy two-length victory in the Camden (N.J.) Handicap, won $22,750 and boosted his earnings to a world's record $1,100,365, just $14,605 more than Citation put away before he retired in 1951.
¶ In an exhibition of the muscular art of hammer throwing, Boston University Senior Cliff Blair practically guaranteed himself a trip to the Olympics by flinging the 16-lb. ball 211 ft. 3 in. to break the world's record.
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