Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 16, 1957

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¶Every bit as wild and woolly as when he won the middleweight championship from Sugar Ray Robinson last January, and every bit as clumsy as when he gave the title back to Robinson in May, Mormon Elder Gene Fullmer, 26, swarmed over Chico Vejar, 25, to win a ten-round decision and take a long step back toward a rematch with Sugar Ray.

¶Highhanded and hardheaded as ever, the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association listened to a report from a special committee unanimously recommending open tournaments between pros and amateurs, hardly took time for a haughty huff before unanimously squelching the suggestion.

¶There was nothing overpowering about Milwaukee's aging (36) Southpaw Warren Spahn's pitching when he beat the Chicago Cubs, 8-0, to win his 18th game of the season; he struck out only five men. But he had the same corner-cutting control that has kept him up among the National League's best pitchers for 13 seasons, and the 41st shutout of his career gave him a league record for lefties.

Not¶ to be outdone by Russian high jumpers and their Pogo-stick shoes (TIME, Sept. 9), California's Ernie Shelton got into the act at the University Games in Paris, sported a triangular aluminum cookie cutter on his take-off foot, designed :o give him more "spring action." He inished a low (6 ft. 6 in.) third. Ahead: Russia's Yuri Stepanov (6 ft., 6 in.) and Igor Kashkarov (6 ft. 7 in.), still wearing platform soles.