Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 5, 1953

¶ At Belmont Park, in the notable absence of the ailing Native Dancer, Greentree Stable's four-year-old Tom Fool won the $50,000 Sysonby Mile, in a race so clearly predetermined that there were only three starters and no bets were taken. EURJ In Milwaukee, the transplanted Braves wound up their season as the city's first major-league baseball team in 52 years by soundly shattering all National League records for home attendance: 1,826,397 admissions.

¶ In St. Louis, Browns fans (home attendance this year: 311,000) reacted to fresh talk of the club's transfer to another city...

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