Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 9, 1953

¶ In Manhattan, Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield added two more indoor records to his winter bag: 1:09.5 for the 600-yard indoor (breaking the 1:10.2 record he matched last month), and, along the way, 1:02.9 for the 500 meters (slicing 1½ seconds off the existing record).

¶ In Miami, Greentree Stable's Straight Face romped home in Hialeah's $153,600 Flamingo Stakes, the richest race ever run for three-year-olds.

¶ In Arcadia, Calif., Calumet Farms' Mark-Ye-Well won the $135,000 Santa Anita Handicap by a head, bringing the classic to Calumet for the first time in the stable's four tries.

¶ At Dayton, Ohio, after setting...

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