Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 18, 1954

¶ In Australia, the Sydney Daily Mirror headlined a tennis reversal: TRABERT PULVERIZES LEW HOAD. The U.S.'s Tony Trabert, bouncing back from his five-set Davis Cup loss to Hoad, whipped the youngster, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, for the South Australian tennis title. Said Hoad: "I've had tennis for the moment." ¶ In Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies—Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale—will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference championship. ¶ In Melbourne, Australian Trackman John Landy, whose 4:02.1...

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