Sport: Scoreboard, may 18, 1953

¶At Fresno. Calif., Olympic Shotputter Parry O'Brien of the University of Southern California heaved the 16-lb. shot to a new unofficial world record in the West Coast relays. O'Brien's prodigious heave: 59 ft. ¾ in., bettering the 1950 record of Yale's Jim Fuchs by 2% in. ¶ In Rome, Doris Hart, the U.S.'s No. 2 women's tennis player, upset Maureen Connolly (No. 1), 4-6, 9-7, 6-3.

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