Sport: Scoreboard, may 5, 1958

¶ In the second race at Churchill Downs, Jockey Willie Hartack, aboard a maiden filly named Quail Egg, was thrown when Quail Egg reared in the starting gate, broke his left leg in the tumble. Winning on Quail Egg would have earned Willie some $200. Falling off cost him a ride on Kentucky Derby Favorite Tim Tarn, and a chance for upwards of $12,000 as his share of the purse.

¶The Penn Relays began a triumphant finale to the intercollegiate foot-racing career of Villanova's light-foot Irish senior Ron Delany. With Ron running in the sprint medley, the distance medley and the one-mile...

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