Sport: Scoreboard, may 17, 1954

¶ At Philadelphia, Navy's Olympic Champion crew, still almost intact from its 1952 triumph at Helsinki, showed its wake to two of the East's undefeated eights, beating Pennsylvania by a length, Harvard by two, for their 24th straight victory.

¶ In New York, making a 1954 debut, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's great grey colt Native Dancer, odds-on (3-20), romped off with Belmont Park's $15,000 Commando Purse. The race was a warmup for this week's Metropolitan, first event in racing's handicap triple crown, where the Dancer will carry 130 lbs.

µ| At White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Herman Scharlau, a pro protég of...

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