Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 4, 1957

CJ It took Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio nine bruising rounds to win back his title from Johnny Saxton last September in Syracuse. He needed fewer than two rounds when Johnny tried a comeback in Cleveland last week. Basilio shot out of his corner at the opening bell, chopped at his challenger with a vicious, two-fisted attack that sent ringsiders' memories back to the second Louis-Schmeling fight of 1938. By the end of the first round, Saxton was on his heels. Midway in the second, a wrist-deep right to the midsection made him drop his guard; a left hook landed on his jaw and he went down for good. "Basilio never could have gone 15 rounds at that pace," said Saxton Wryly when he came to, "but then, he didn't have to, did he?" C| Running, as usual, no faster than he had to, Olympic Champion Ron Delany outsprinted Hungarian Expatriate Laszlo Tabori in the last two laps of the mile run at the A.A.U. championships. This time Tabori earned some extra satisfaction by finishing second, pushed Delany to a new meet record: 4:07.

($ Denmark's mustached Kurt Nielsen, 26, sometime madcap of the amateur-tennis circuit, minded his manners all the way through the U.S. indoor championships, foiled Dick Savitt's comeback in the semifinals, overpowered California's Herb Flam in the finals, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.