Friday, Oct. 06, 1961

Scoreboard

> With a magnificent two-hitter. Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, 40, beat Chicago, 8-0, became the fourth pitcher in major-league history to win 20 games in each of twelve seasons. The others: Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson. Spahn now has 308 victories, needs only 17 more to become the winningest lefthander of all time.

> Fastballing Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax, 25, who once struck out 18 batters in a single game, proved it was no fluke. Koufax fanned seven Phillies, raised his season strike-out total to 269, breaking Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record. Koufax has now disposed of 952 batters in 948 innings--best strikeout record in history. > After one brief season in retirement, former Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 71, agreed to get back in uniform for one more year and exercise his gravel-voiced strategy from one more big-league dugout. Beginning next spring, Stengel will manage the New York Mets of the expanded National League.

> Kelso, 1960's "horse of the year," entered the $110,600 Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park a heavy favorite, defied a Woodward tradition that favorites rarely win, and whisked to a six-length win (the last five had not) in 2:00 flat to tie a 48-year-old track record, boosted his 1961 earnings to $341,795.

> On college football's first big weekend, the big news was that Notre Dame, after so-so seasons, was well and brutish again--outweighing, outrunning, outclassing Oklahoma 19-6. Two 1960 powerhouses continued winning ways, Syracuse dropping West Virginia 29-14, Washington outsizing Illinois 20-7. But Minnesota, No. 1 last year, lost a 6-0 thriller to Missouri. Football's oldest college rivalry saw Rutgers this time victorious over Princeton 16-13.

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