Sport: Scoreboard, may 21, 1956

¶Exactly one year to the day after the Chicago Cubs' "Toothpick Sam" Jones pitched the last no-hit game in big-league baseball, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Carl Erskine turned in the second no-hit game of his career and beat the Giants 3-0.

¶Undaunted by a length-and-a-quarter loss to Yale in the Carnegie Cup race on the Housatonic River Cornell's crew came back on the choppy waters of the Potomac to lick the Elis by a scant 3 ft. in the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges.

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