CURRENT WEEK & WHAT'S AHEAD

April 18, 1955

Bookies in Philadelphia (Blinky Palermo's home grounds), Wilmington and Trenton were simultaneously deluged with bets on underdog Tony DeMarco just a few hours before Blinky's 3-1 favorite, Johnny Saxton, lost the title to Tony in Boston...Eddie Arcaro got a 10-day suspension for careless riding at Bowie, Md., will be unable to ride Nashua in his heralded encounter with Summer Tan in the Wood Memorial—his replacement will be Ted Atkinson...17-year-old Swimmer Shelley Mann, who recovered from a disappointing performance at the Pan-Am Games by gulping vitamin pills and reading both The Power of Positive Thinking and a Donald Duck comic book, re-established herself as the hottest U.S. woman swimmer by a triple victory (100- and 250-yard freestyle, the 400-yard individual medley) in the Woman's National AAU meet at Daytona Beach...college rowing begins this week (Navy meets Princeton, Columbia meets Rutgers) with eastern experts, among them Coach Rusty Callow, author of Navy's three-year winning streak, touting Cornell as the "crew of the year"...U.S. Olympic prospects (for 1960) received a boost when a North Phoenix, Ariz. high school sophomore named Jim Brewer pole-vaulted 13 feet 9� inches in his bare feet...meanwhile, Olympic Official Avery Brundage bluntly complained (in Brisbane) that Australian preparations for the 1956 games are lagging badly...The Masters golf tournament dramatized indomitable Ben Hogan's age (42) and aches—he limped noticeably as Winner Cary Middlecoff pulled out to a seven-stroke lead in the final round...the Fort Wayne Pistons, who have never won a basketball game in Syracuse, had to play four of seven NBA championship games there against the Syracuse Nationals and lost the title (natch) four games to three.