Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...other managers of pennant contenders, Stengel had not been forced to use his starting pitchers in relief to save close games. His ace in the hole for relief work was Tom Ferrick, bought from the St. Louis Browns in June. Righthander Ferrick, 35 and no great shakes with a second-division club, has become the Yankees' 1950 Joe Page. In 18 appearances on the mound for them he has won seven games, saved seven others since the Fourth of July...
...Women's Championship almost had a form upset when Althea Gibson (TIME, July 17), first Negro ever to play in the Nationals, carried Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough to within one game of match before rain stopped their second-round contest. But next day, 22-year-old Tennist Gibson no longer had her touch or speed, and she went out of the tournament...
...second heat next day, with the Canadian entry out of the running because of broken plankings, Slo-Mo-Shun gave up dawdling. With a look at the smooth water, Sayres told Driver Fageol: "Try one lap at 100 m.p.h. or better." Lou opened the throttle of his 1,800-h.p. Allison engine, tried for one lap, then another and another ("She ran so smoothly I just decided to keep my foot down"). By the end of the second lap, My Sweetie had dropped out with a broken oil line. By the sixth lap, Slo-Mo-Shun was a full five...
...Shtin's average speed for the second heat: 100.68 m.p.h. Old record: 94.285 m.p.h., set last year by Stanley Dollar's Skip-a-Long. Jubilant Auto Dealer Sayres was delighted over his boat's performance, but he was already taking a look ahead. Said Sayres: "We have a faster boat on the drafting board now . . . 200 m.p.h. is not impossible...
...Which for 16 years (1929-45) helped run the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as one of the executors of the estate of the late baseball magnate Charles H. Ebbets. After the hapless Dodgers had wallowed in the second division for five years straight, the bank hired Larry MacPhail as general manager in 1938. MacPhail drove the Dodgers to a National League pennant in 1941, paid off a mountain of debts (some $500,000 to the Brooklyn Trust) by 1942. †The top four: Bank of America, National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank, and Guaranty Trust...