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...Angeles Dodgers made a two-game sweep of their playoff series with Milwaukee by defeating the Braves 6-5 Tuesday. They produced three big runs in the ninth to tie the score, then crumbled in the 12th...
There have been other dead heats, of course. The Cardinals whipped the (then) Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, and Cleveland dispatched Boston in a one-game A.L. playoff in 1948. But the only climax that seems likely to match this year's in sheer excitement was the 1951 thriller, when the (then) New York Giants beat the (then) Brooks, two games out of three. As you can see, the Dodgers can't seem to stay out of these post-season affairs. They've been in all three N.L. showdowns...
...Little Shepherd of Coogan's Bluff, Leo Durocher, led the Giants from a position 13 1/2 games behind in August to a tie on the last day of the season. The clubs split the first two playoff encounters. In the finale, with the Giants trailing 4 to 1 going into the last of the ninth, Alvin Dark led off with a single. Another single by Don Mueller sent Dark to third, and Dark scored on a double by Whitey Lockman. Then Bobby Thomson bashed his immortal home run and the New Yorkers were home free...
Keeping a 20-game over-all winning streak which has lasted since November, Stoughton walked away with the American League title in Freshman intramural basketball on March 14. Stoughton then went on to edge out Hurlbut, the National League champion, by a score of 43 to 38 in the playoff game...
...Humphrey, who plays second to no man in devotion to the public will, made the best of it. If he decides at midsummer to go all out for the big job, announced Humphrey, he will welcome primary contests, especially the ones in Oregon and Wisconsin. Prospect: a real Wisconsin playoff next April between Humphrey and Kennedy...