Scoreboard

P: At home in the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants teed off on Dodger pitching, took two games of a three-game series with their arch rivals, all but clinched the National League pennant, and brushed Brooklyn back into a second-place scramble with the Milwaukee Braves. In the Yankee Stadium, the World Champions took two out of three from the league-leading Indians to stay within a long reach of their sixth pennant in a row. But time was running out. Cleveland moved into Baltimore for Labor Day, 4 1/2 games in front.

P: The California and Illinois racing commissions indefinitely suspended affable Andy Crevolin, owner of Kentucky Derby Winner Determine, from their tracks. Reason: a careless admission to the press that his horses were often raced for experience, not to win (TIME, Sept. 6).

P: At New York's Aqueduct Race Track, gentlemanly Jockey Ted Atkinson, 38, a studious and mild-mannered master of the art of booting home winners, won his 3,000th horse race and became the fourth jockey in history to achieve that record (others: Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards).

P: In Tampa, at the University of Tampa's opening football practice of the season, Freshman Tackle Jarvis Midgett Jr. took an awkward tumble, lost consciousness and died of a brain injury a few hours later--the first football fatality of 1954.

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