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Mower Hall won the freshman touch football title yesterday, topping Matthews South, champion of the National League, 20 to 13, in the playoff game. Mower had previously won the American League championship...
...Yonkers, N.Y. The victory, worth $6,750, increased Good Time's record earnings to $318,792.86. ¶Jockey Tony Despirito, 17, his 300th race this season, the eighth American rider ever to turn the trick; at Salem, N.H. Cf Australian Open Golf Champion Norman Von Nida, a playoff, 72-77, over the U.S.'s Ed ("Porky") Oliver, in the $7,840 Ampol Tournament; at Sydney...
Victory was especially sweet to the Dodgers this year because they had lost by one-game margins in 1950 and 1951. Last year they saw a 13½-game lead fizzle away, wound up in a tie and lost the playoff when the Giants' Bobby Thomson clouted an unforgettable ninth-inning home run. This year Brooklyn was often wobbly, but always recovered in time...
...head, he is most downcast. One thing he is sure he wants is Memo Paris, the manager's redhaired, teasing niece. But what Memo wants is fun and money, big money. The temptation to get that money the fast, easy way by helping to throw a playoff game brings Roy to his final tragic crisis...
...National Open Golf Champion Julius Boros, the 18-hole playoff of the $90,000 "World" golf tournament, with a score of 68 to beat out Runner-Up Gary Middlecoff, who carded a 70, after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...