Sport: Scoreboard, may 3, 1954

¶ In Des Moines, Kansas Miler Wes Santee anchored four winning relay teams in two days of competition at the Drake Relays, helped set U.S. records in the sprint medley and distance medley. Unofficial star of the relays: ex-Southern California Shotputter Parry O’Brien, who tossed the 16-lb. weight 59 ft.9¾ in., a full 6½ in. farther than his own world record. The heave goes into the record books only as a “noteworthy performance,” since the Drake Relays lacked the required three competitors in the event.

¶ At Las Vegas, Nev., shooting for one of golf’s richest prizes, the $35,000 Las Vegas Open, Art Wall Jr., 30, a pro from Pocono Manor, Pa., banged out rounds of 69-66-70-73, to beat Runners-Up Lloyd Mangrum and Al Besselink by six strokes.

¶ At Houston, 1951 Wimbledon Champion Dick Savitt, playing his second tennis tournament in two years, upset current Wimbledon Champion Vic Seixas in a semifinal match, went on to win the River Oaks tennis tournament from Hamilton Richardson, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

¶ In Washington, the Boston Red Sox, already handicapped in the young baseball season by Ted Williams’ broken collarbone, suffered another bad break when Pitcher Mel Parnell, a 21 -game winner last year, fractured a bone in his left forearm. The lefthander is expected back in action at about the same time Williams returns: late-May.

¶ In London, the Wolverhampton Wanderers clinched the English Soccer League title for the first time in their 66 years, downing Tottenham Hotspur, 2-0.

¶ At Princeton, N.J., the University of Pennsylvania crew, stroked by Canadian Jack Guest, former single sculls champion, beat Princeton by a length, Columbia by two, in the 75th anniversary Childs Cup Race.

¶ At Annapolis, Navy’s crew won its 22nd straight race (including the Olympics), beating Syracuse by 2½ lengths.

¶ At Oakland, the California crew, understroking Southern California, scored an easy two-length victory in a 2,000-meter race in the good time of 6:04.

¶ At Wilmington, Calif., the U.C.L.A. crew, going three miles for the first time (in 18:45.3), whipped Stanford’s crew by 15 lengths through choppy water.