CURRENT WEEK & WHAT'S AHEAD

May 16, 1955

California-bred Swaps beat Nashua and won the Derby, but failed to surprise Winning Jockey Willie Shoemaker—"When Nashua came up on us I knew we were going to win," said Willie the Shoe afterward. "Swaps was pricking up his ears. He wanted to loaf, so I hit him and he flattened out his ears." ...Resentment against Britain's stiff-necked ban on soccer substitutions came to a boil as Newcastle United beat Manchester City, 3-1, before 100,000 people in the English Cup Finals—Manchester lost a back through injuries after 19 minutes and was forced to play 10 men against 11 through the rest of the game...Pitt's amazing Arnie Sowell (who will eventually try for the four-minute mile) ran a quarter-mile relay lap (with a running start) in 0:45.4—undercutting the 46-second world record...Navy's three-year, 31-race winning streak—longest in rowing history—was finally ended as Pennsylvania's high-speed varsity crew won the Adams Cup by a length-and-a-half (with Harvard third) in a mile-and-three-quarters sprint at Cambridge...Madrid's bullfight weekly, El Ruedo, cheered the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for its laudable animosity—"If the U.S. imports bullfighting," it explained, "the sport will never recover"...The Rampaging Dodgers won their 21st game, thereby obscuring an almost equally astounding phenomenon—a six-game winning streak by the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates...Heavyweight Roland La Starza (a victim of both Rocky Marciano and Don Cockell) warned the tender-nosed champ that the Englishman's left jab is damaging—but London's unimpassioned bookies offered 7-1 to anyone who would bet on Cockell by a decision, 16-1 on Cockell by a knockout in 11 to 15 rounds, 20-1 on Cockell by a knockout in 6 to 10 rounds, and 25 to 1 on Cockell by a knockout in the first five.