Sport: Scoreboard, may 25, 1953

¶ In Washington, in the first major crew race held on the Potomac—and the first ever televised—Navy's Olympic champions won their igth straight and the Eastern Sprint championship, beating Harvard by a third of a length. Other finishers, in order: Wisconsin, Cornell, Columbia, Penn.

¶ At Seattle, completely reversing last year's order of finish, the University of Washington's varsity, j.v. and freshman crews whipped California's by margins up to eleven lengths. Washington, now pride of the West, will meet undefeated Navy next month at the Syracuse Regatta.

¶At Belmont Park. N.Y., in a warm...

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