Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 16, 1957

¶Every bit as wild and woolly as when he won the middleweight championship from Sugar Ray Robinson last January, and every bit as clumsy as when he gave the title back to Robinson in May, Mormon Elder Gene Fullmer, 26, swarmed over Chico Vejar, 25, to win a ten-round decision and take a long step back toward a rematch with Sugar Ray.

¶Highhanded and hardheaded as ever, the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association listened to a report from a special committee unanimously recommending open tournaments between pros and amateurs, hardly took time for a haughty huff before...

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