Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 26, 1959

¶ In 25 years as head coach at Dartmouth (1934-40) and West Point (1941-58), Earl Blaik compiled one of the finest records of any college football coach (48 losses in 228 games). Between 1944 and 1950, Blaik’s Army juggernauts went undefeated for 32 and 28 games at a clip. When, in 1951, Blaik’s quarterback son Bob and virtually the entire varsity squad were dismissed from the Point in the mishandled “cribbing scandal,” Blaik resolutely stayed on, brought Army back to football greatness, last year had another unbeaten season. Last week, at 61, he resigned, denied he was leaving because of friction with Army brass over the Academy’s no-Bowl policy (“sheer malarky”), or for health reasons (“bunk”), said only: “I decided I’d had it.” ¶ Independent boxing promoters, managers and fighters rejoiced last week when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an antitrust decree against the International Boxing Clubs of New York and Illinois. The decision broke the strangle hold I.B.C. has exercised on title bouts, directed I.B.C. Kingpins James D. Norris and Arthur M. Wirtz to dissolve both clubs, sell their controlling interest in New York’s Madison Square Garden, open both the Garden and Chicago Stadium to any qualified promoter. Neither the Garden nor the Stadium may stage more than two championship fights a year. ¶ Thrashing purposefully against a stop watch in the Olympic pool at North Sydney, Australia’s incredible whiz-kid, Lisa Konrads, 14, touched out in 19 min. 25.7 sec., shattering the old world record for 1,500 meters by an amazing 37.4 sec. Brother John Konrads, 16, got into the act, too, set a new world mark of 2 min. 2.2 sec. for the 200-meter freestyle, now holds every freestyle record from 200 meters to 1,650 yds. ¶ Boston University Freshman John Thomas, 17, watched tensely as the high-jump bar was set, missed his first two tries, then rolled cleanly across on his last chance, set a new world indoor record of 6 ft. 11¼ in. at the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus games in Boston. ¶ To encourage more college field-goal kicking, the N.C.A.A. rules committee widened the space between the goal posts 4 ft. 10 in. to 23 ft. 4 in., first goalpost width change in football history.