Education: Scoreboard

¶ He wore ear muffs to keep out the cries of the crowd, and he liked uncooked artichokes. But there was nothing effete about France’s six-year-old Jamin as he recovered from breaking stride right after the start, overpowered the field in the stretch to win the $50,000 International Trot at Long Island’s Roosevelt Raceway.

¶ The picture of confidence, a Manhattan lawyer named Bill Shea announced formation of a third major league: the Continental, which plans to start play in 1961, has already signed up New York, Houston, Denver, Toronto, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Shea’s biggest-problem: getting big-league players. But Congress is strongly pressing the majors to cooperate and Shea is asking for what he loosely terms “ready access” to their manpower pools.

¶ Deep in a hitting slump, the San Francisco Giants brought up lean (6 ft. 4 in., 180 Ibs.) Willie McCovey from Phoenix, Ariz. The new Negro first baseman scored three runs and drove in two in his first game, knocked across the winning score in his second, went 3-for-5 in his third, as the Giants won all three games and slipped back into first place in the tight National League pennant race.

¶ Needing pars on the last two holes to win, the pressure finally cracked Los Angeles’ tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 134 Ibs.) Jerry Barber, 43, who bogeyed both, lost the Professional Golfers’ Association title by a single stroke to Palo Alto’s burly Bob Rosburg, 32, who finished with a blazing 66 for a total of 277 at the Minneapolis Golf Club.

-Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France’s Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment.