Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 23, 1958

¶ When the Detroit Tigers, picked to roam in the American League’s first division, turned out to be a bunch of second-division tabby cats, General Manager Jack McHale did the obvious thing: he fired Jack Tighe, his genial field manager (“Jack tried to be all things to all men”), replaced him with an unknown named Henry Willis Patrick (“Bill”) Norman, manager of Detroit’s Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers’ tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees, ¶Not even the obstacle of a stalled motorboat could stay the veteran, power-stroking Yale crew from sweeping through the dusk on the Thames River in New London, Conn, to trounce Harvard by three lengths in the nation’s longest (four miles) and oldest (107 years) boat race, and to prove again that it is the finest in the land.

¶ Coming out of the turn, Sprinter Glenn Davis of Ohio State University inched into the lead and whipped across the finish line of the 440-yd. dash in 45.7 sec., to set a new world’s record at the N.C.A.A. games in Berkeley, Calif.