Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 18, 1954

¶At New York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity.

¶ In Manhattan, the Davis Cup selection committee named the players who will go to Australia for the interzone final and the challenge round. In one more effort to bring home the cup, the U.S. will send the same team that...

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