Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 5, 1953

¶ At Belmont Park, in the notable absence of the ailing Native Dancer, Greentree Stable’s four-year-old Tom Fool won the $50,000 Sysonby Mile, in a race so clearly predetermined that there were only three starters and no bets were taken. EURJ In Milwaukee, the transplanted Braves wound up their season as the city’s first major-league baseball team in 52 years by soundly shattering all National League records for home attendance: 1,826,397 admissions.

¶ In St. Louis, Browns fans (home attendance this year: 311,000) reacted to fresh talk of the club’s transfer to another city by belatedly crowding the ballpark, hanging Owner Bill Veeck in effigy. At week’s end they heard that the Browns might not move after all; meeting in Manhattan, American League club owners rejected the most likely city, Baltimore, for the second time. ¶ In Boston, the Red Sox’s Ted Williams, who returned from Korea too late to be considered for American League batting honors, still managed to hang up a personal record in 37 games: a batting average of .407 (37 hits, 13 home runs) to top .400 for the second time in his career.