Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 17, 1958

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¶ After totting up attendance figures for U.S. spectator sports. Triangle Publications (Morning Telegraph, Daily Racing Form) raced to report that horse parks, with 53,820,958 customers, led all other competitors for the sportsman's spare time. Second: baseball, with 32,512,503 (despite a drop of more than 1,500,000 in minor-league attendance). Third: football, with the colleges and pros playing to a combined 16,767,613.

¶ As Madison Square Garden's 1958 track season ended, Manhattan College's Joe Soprano, a 21-year-old senior who had never won a big race, strained home inches in front of St. John's Pete Close to win a fast (2:10.3) 1,000-yd. run. Bates's Rudy Smith supplied another surprise with a fine 1:10.6 for the 600, and Eastern Michigan's Hayes Jones skimmed the 60-yd. high hurdles in a meet record 7.1 sec.

¶ From the Glen Cove, N.Y. hospital where a car crash landed him with a broken neck (TIME, Feb. 10) came an encouraging bulletin on Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella. Still paralyzed from the waist down, Roy has improved in "muscle strength," and "he is now able to move his wrists and straighten out his arms. The sense of feeling ... is now down to the upper abdomen."

¶ Retired American League Umpire Emmet ("Red") Ormsby, 62, was understandably surprised to read in James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrel's book, My Baseball Diary, that "Red Ormsby was found broke and dead in a cheap hotel." Not only is Red's health good, but he has been thriving for years. He is both a lecturer and an employee of Chicago's Liquor License Appeal Commission. (Typical lecture topic: "Kill the Umpire.") By killing the umpire prematurely, he charged, Farrell would cost him countless lecture bookings. Ormsby slapped him with a $250,000 suit for damages.

C¶ In Sydney, young (15) John Konrads, who breaks swimming records almost every time he gets wet (TIME, March 3), broke his own 220-yd. and 200-meter world records with a new time of 2 min. 3.2 sec.