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Barber in his seat. Delmer got behind the wheel and sped to safety on two flat tires. A bullet had creased Barber's skull; forty stitches were needed to close the wound...
Examination of the airplane proved that Pilot Attridge had hit no bird; he had overtaken and run down the fire from his own guns. A nonexplosive 20-mm. bullet (used in practice) had gone through his windshield. Another had hit the engine, a third had punctured the nose. If the projectiles had been explosive, Pilot Attridge would not have got home alive...
Navy experts explained that the bullets left the guns at 3,000 ft. per sec. Their speed through the air (muzzle velocity plus airplane's speed) was about 4,300 ft. per sec., but friction quickly slowed them, and gravity pulled them toward the earth. If the airplane had kept its original course, it would have passed by them, but its steepened dive made it intersect their down-curving path. When it hit them, they must have been moving so slowly that the airplane overtook them at a good fraction of its own air speed, which was about...
...sixth game, back at Ebbets Field, Manager Walter Alston started his bullpen specialist, Clem Labine. Inning after scoreless inning, he matched the Yanks' bulky "Bullet Bob" Turley, an erratic speed merchant who seldom wins the way he ought to. Then, in the tenth, hefty Jackie Robinson briefly remembered the skill that once made him one of the roughest hitters in the league. He laced a rising liner over the head of aging Enos Slaughter in left field and drove in the only run of the game. It was a thin victory, but the Dodgers were still alive...
Phil Haughey kicked off to the ten, and Lion captain Art Wilson returned it up the right side to the 31. Benham then tried a short bullet pass to end Ron Szczypkowski, but was wide of the mark and threw directly into the hands of Crimson captain Ted Metropoulos, who couldn't hold onto the ball...