Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 9, 1957

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¶The ending of the college football season produced a new schedule for some tired teams. The Bowl games:

ORANGE BOWL (at Miami)—Oklahoma v. Duke;

ROSE BOWL (Pasadena)—Ohio State v. Oregon;

SUGAR BOWL (New Orleans)—Mississippi v. Texas;

'GATOR BOWL (Jacksonville)—Tennessee v. Texas A. & M.;

COTTON BOWL (Dallas)—Rice v. Navy.

¶Only one anonymous American League lover prevented a jury of baseball writers from voting unanimously to give Milwaukee's great lefthander, 'Warren Spahn, the Cy Young award as best pitcher in the majors. But by the 15-1 tally, Spahn was a shoo-in. At 36, he shows no sign of tiring. While pitching the Braves to the pennant, he won 21 games, lost only 11, equaled a National League record for lefthanders by finishing his eighth season with 20 or more victories.

¶Delegates to the national American Athletic Union convention did away with a couple of bits of unnecessary nonsense. They banned the "Spanish style" javelin throw (in which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic Hurdler Lee Calhoun will be an amateur once more. Calhoun's professional transgression: he was married on TV's gift-happy Bride and Groom show.