Scorecard

The doctors asked 10 men ranging in age from 25 to 63 to share their emotions with electronic monitors as they watched a Nebraska football game. Their rates of pulse, respiration and sweat, as well as electrocardiograph reaction, were taken down and examined play by play. In one five-minute period the pulse of a former coach, who was serving as a spectator subject, jumped by 46, then plunged 35, went down another 15, then went up 23 on this sequence of plays: 1) an intercepted pass: 2) a point after touchdown; 3) a kickoff return; 4) a home-team punt return.

All of which got the doctors so excited that they warned that emotional involvement in a sporting event may be dangerous to persons who have "a prior heart condition."

QUICK, IZAAK WALTON, THE NEEDLE

Sporting goods stores in Wisconsin are now selling hypodermic needles to lake trout fishermen and the needles are saving the lives of young trout brought up from the depths of Green Lake.

The lake is as deep as 220 feet, and lakers like to lie near the bottom. When a fish is brought up from such depths, the air in its bladder expands. This does not matter if the trout is of legal length (17 inches), but if it is smaller and must be returned to the water it dies because the inflated air bladder will not let it swim down to its accustomed haunts. Solution: slip a hypodermic needle (without the syringe) through the fish's belly into the bladder. The air hisses out. The trout can then head for home. Some young trout have been needled three and four times.

DUROCHER IN PANTOMIME

It had been a long time since Leo Durocher had encountered Umpire Babe Pinelli. They met at the Willie Mays testimonial dinner in San Francisco and The Lip was moved to recall the first time he had ever been nonplussed on a ball field.

"It was a terrible call at first base in the Brooklyn ball park one day," he said. "Our guy was safe by two yards. The crowd started to holler, 'Leo, Leo.... ' So I trot out to Pinelli and I scream, 'What the blank is the matter with you? He was safe by 12 yards.' And the Babe whispers back to me, 'Yeah, Leo, wasn't that an awful decision?' Well, I'm speechless. What can I do or say? So I make a few gestures at him and ask him out for dinner that night, and he points his finger under my nose and accepts, and I trot back to the bench and the Brooklyn crowd hollers, 'Attaboy, Leo, you told that mole where to find a hole.' "

PRESCRIPTION: POOL
Hours in a swimming pool were prescribed for Senator Ted Kennedy's injured back and now hours in a pool hall have been prescribed for the slipped disk of Dean Francisco, San Francisco pharmacist. He slipped a disk while dancing, and his orthopedist directed him to shoot pool once a day on the theory that bending across the table will help to realign the spine and the long muscles.

IRON HORSE MIGHTY HUNTER
Deep snow and two months of severe cold have made this winter a disaster for much of Montana's wildlife. Complicating the situation is the fact that deer and antelope have been attracted to the Great Northern Railway's right-of-way because the tracks are kept clear of snow and a certain amount of food is dropped from trains. Trains have killed 250 head of pronghorn antelope in northern Montana. One passenger train plowed through a herd of antelope and killed 74, a bounty for Indians on the Fort Belknap Reservation to whom the meat was given. The antelope kill, said oldtimers, was greater than the Indians ever accomplished by driving the antelope over cliffs in pioneer days.