CURRENT WEEK & WHAT'S AHEAD

May 02, 1955

Willful Nashua's last-jump victory over Summer Tan in the $111,700 Wood Memorial makes him the prime favorite in the Kentucky Derby, but his backers will still die a little when they bet him—he has now beaten Summer Tan four times but only once by more than a neck...Kansas City's newly minted baseball afficionados had only one consolation after the A's illusion-shriveling 29-6 loss to the White Sox—Boston gave the old St. Louis Browns a worse clobbering (29-4) when they set the big league scoring record in 1950...Cornell's varsity crew will break Navy's 30-race winning streak (an all-time record) on the Severn this week unless the experts (among them Navy's Coach Rusty Callow) are badly mistaken...Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore was licensed to fight Heavyweight Contender Nino Valdes at Las Vegas after two Nevada physicians tested his supposedly faulty heart and pronounced him in "perfect condition"—three medical men have now okayed him, three others have warned him never to fight again...Wes Santee, slowed to 4:11.4 by wind and weather at the Kansas Relays, prepared to try again this week at the Drake Relays...Hideo Hamamura, a 26-year-old clerk from Yamaguchi, Japan (whose fellow employes took up a collection to send him to the U.S.) beat a field of 160 in the famed Boston Marathon and set a new record (2 hours, 18 minutes, 22 seconds) for the 26-mile 385-yard course...Meanwhile in Tokyo (which is bidding for the 1960 Olympics) world traveler Avery Brundage, international Olympics chairman, was made an honorary citizen of the town...Chelsea's soccer team cinched its first English League championship—a full 50 years after being founded (as the Stamford Bridge Club) in a London pub.