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Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen shot the works. Starting with his ace lefthander, Preacher Roe, he used up a total of seven pitchers trying to cut the Phillies down. In the eighth the Dodgers scored three runs, tied up the game. Going into the last of the twelfth the Phillies threatened again, loading the bases with one out. Brooklyn's Don Newcombe zipped a third strike past Outfielder Del Ennis. But then Philly First Baseman Eddie Waitkus lashed a liner toward Second Baseman Jackie Robinson, who had missed a grounder in the second inning that let in two Philadelphia runs...
...newly-appointed Flynn will help head freshman coach Bob Margarita and Bill Henry with the A team, while Howie Houston and Charley Law will work with the B unit...
Behind Gagliardi lay Defending Champion Sam Urzetta, 1949 Champion Charley Coe, and National Junior Champ Tommy Jacobs, at 16 the youngest golfer ever to reach the men's semifinals. Walker Cupper Frank Stranahan and 1951 British Amateur Titleholder Dick Chapman had already fallen in earlier rounds. Young Billy Maxwell blasted his way into the last round by knocking off 250-lb. Pittsburgh Realtor Jack Benson...
Dixon started by merely kidding the gamblers in his column, "Charley Lake Says"; later, he began blasting them on Page One. One night as he drove home, someone shot at him, knocked out a headlight of his Ford convertible...
Technically, Smith felt there were a few flaws. "There was some slight running of colors. When [Dodger Manager] Charley Dressen . . . stood on the bare base path . . . his white uniform was immaculate as a prom queen's gown. But the camera followed him as he returned to the coach's box beside third, and against this background of "turf he turned green, like cheap jewelry. Light blues ran a good deal too . . . when the camera swept the shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water...