Sport: Scoreboard: Sep. 8, 1961

¶ Still ageless and agile at 60, give or take ten years. Leroy (“Satchel”) Paige returned to organized baseball after a three-year absence spent barnstorming in the Negro leagues. In his debut as a pitcher for the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. Satch showed that there was still plenty of spring left in his ancient arm; in four innings, he allowed the Seattle Rainiers three scratch hits, gave up two unearned runs. ¶Before 30,000 Bulgarian fans packed into Sofia’s Vasil Levski stadium, Russia’s Valery Brumel. 19, bettered his own world record for the high jump, cleared 7 ft. 4½in. at the world student games. Brumel’s old world mark of 7 ft. 44 in. was set in July at the U.S.-Russian meet in Moscow. Once before the Russian high flyer hit 7 ft. 4½ in., but that was indoors, where world records are not recognized. ¶ In a head-bumping fandango at Seattle, light-hitting Harold Johnson, the National Boxing Association’s light heavyweight champion (recognized in every state except New York, Massachusetts and California, which prefer Archie Moore), won a 15-round split decision over Challenger Eddie Cotton. Johnson’s guaranteed purse of $20,000 was the biggest he has ever won in 14 years of professional boxing.

¶ Aching with the muscular miseries early in the season. Trotter Harlan Dean came from behind in both heats to win the Hambletonian. Kentucky Derby of harness racing, on the concrete-hard clay oval at Du Quoin, Ill. With Driver Jimmy Arthur in the sulky, the three-year-old colt set a record with a combined clocking of 3:57! in the two heats. Harlan Dean’s purse: $77,364.93.