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...most frantic finish in the National League since the Dodgers overhauled the Cardinals in 1946 and were beaten out of the pennant in a postseason playoff. The Giants, rated as red-hot contenders in spring training, had bumbled into an eleven-game losing streak at the beginning of the season, could never seem to get going again. But in mid-August, behind the standout pitching of Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, they had started to move, and won a phenomenal 37 of their last 44 games. With the pressure on, the Dodgers dropped five of their last eight games...
...Brooklyn victory tied up the National League race again, and put the Giants and Dodgers into a two-out-of-three-game playoff this week for the right to meet the Yankees in the series...
Cambridge's partisan baseball bugs will be able to place a lot of bets this morning, with the Giants and Sal Maglie (23-6) favored to take the third National League playoff game. But none of the bets will be taken by Harvard's leading baseball authority and most rabid rooter, Coach Stuffy McInnis...
...shame," the baseball coach went on, "that the National League has a three-game playoff, instead of only one. It's very disastrous to the pitchers just before the Series. Brooklyn's pitching staff is all worn out; and what if Jansen had to relieve Maglie for the Giants tomorrow? It takes the edge off the World Series...
...rare honor was a happy choice and a nice gesture. Ouimet has been a name in transatlantic golf ever since the day in 1913 when, as a 20-year-old, he whipped Britain's peerless pair, Harry Vardon (by five strokes) and Ted Ray (by six), in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. Since then, as a player or the non-playing captain of every U.S. Walker Cup team until 1949, Ouimet has won an unequaled place in the hearts of R. & A. members, surpassing even Bobby Jones...