Scoreboard

P: At Dayton, Ohio, Major William T. Whisner Jr., 29, flashed his F-86F Sabre-jet past the finish line 3 hrs. 5 min. 25 sec. after his takeoff from Muroc, Calif, to win the 1953 Bendix Trophy race by 4"8 sec. His average speed for 1,900 miles: 603.547 m.p.h., some 50 m.p.h. faster than the record set (in an F-86) in 1951.

P: At Marion, Mass., a team of U.S. amateur golfers including Congressman Jack Westland of Washington, the U.S. amateur champion, defeated the British nine matches out of twelve, to carry off the Walker Cup for the 13th time in 14 competitions.

P: At Naples, Lieut. Commander Agostino Straulino of the Italian navy won the world's sailing championship in the Star (22 ft. 8 1/2 in.) class for the second year in a row. Runner-up, in a race that drew 38 entries from 16 countries including the U.S.: Duarte Bello of Portugal. The highest final standing of any of the visiting Americans: eleventh.

P: At Camp Perry, Ohio, the high-powered rifle events of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches (TIME, Sept. 7) were won by two U.S. marines. With 435 points out of a possible 450, Master Sergeant Maxim R. Beebe took the service-rifle title. Staff Sergeant Don L. Smith won the sporting-rifle championship with 439 out of 450.

P: At Chicago, Hasty House Farms' bay colt Hasty Road all but cinched the 1953 earning championship for two-year-olds by taking the $99,645 winner's share of the Washington Park Futurity. Hasty Road's earnings in five races: $208,350.

P: In the English Channel, San Diego's Florence Chadwick, 33, swimming west to east in 14 hrs. 42 min., conquered the channel for the third time. After a four-minute rest, she waded back into the water to attempt an immediate east-to-west crossing, was stopped after 2 1/4 miles by cold and a school of stinging jellyfish.

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