Scoreboard

P: Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like a man who had stood too close to his razor. The bell was his biggest ally when his knees came unhinged at the end of three different rounds. But still he came on, and Sugar Ray left the ring a broke and beaten man. Although the referee disagreed, a pair of judges transferred his crown to the bloody skull of Carmen Basilio; federal agents slapped a $514,310 tax lien on Sugar Ray's purse.

P: Scoreboards showed some surprising arithmetic as football settled down for the fall season. Notre Dame began to run up revenge for last year's embarrassing record (two victories, eight losses) by beating powerful Purdue, 12-0. Columbia, long practiced in the art of losing gracefully, upset Ivy League predictions by whipping Brown, 23-20. Michigan State ran out of substitutes while eating up Indiana, 54-0. Texas Christian, riding on the broad shoulders of Halfback Jimmy Shofner, upset Ohio State, 18-14. While Georgia Tech settled for a scoreless tie with S.M.U., Auburn beat Tennessee, 7-0, and moved into the front of the race for the Southeast Conference championship.

P: After running in the money nine times at Belmont's beautiful horse park but never winning a race, Mrs. Jan Burke's brown horse Dedicate went to the post for one more effort. Lugging rough-riding Willie Hartack for the first time, Dedicate lay back and saved ground all the way to the stretch in the $106,100 Woodward Stakes, then came on along the rail to drive home briskly and beat both Gallant Man and Bold Ruler--a pair of thoroughbreds that were theoretically fighting it out for the title, Horse of the Year. On the same afternoon, George Widener's Jester, two-year-old son of Tom Fool, won the $114,705 Futurity, a victory earmarking him the Horse of Next Year.

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