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Bunched back of the Phillies were the Brooklyn Dodgers, who started off like runaways and then, with mediocre pitching, became the season's biggest disappointment; the fast-moving Boston Braves, supported by outstanding pitching from Warren Spahn, Johnny Sain and Vern Bickford; the St. Louis Cardinals, held down by too many batting slumps; the New York Giants, who had surprised everybody by winning 17 out of 18 games, then abruptly dropped three out of four to the Dodgers last week...
...broke a seventh-inning tie with the Boston Red Sox, who, on paper at least, should beat Washington by just appearing on the field. And once ahead, the Senators stayed ahead. In the ninth inning Boston got two men on base, and Sox Sluggers Ted Williams and Vern Stephens were due to hit. Bucky Harris picked up the dugout phone and summoned Relief Pitcher Mickey Harris (no kin) from the bullpen. Mickey subdued Williams and Stephens with harmless infield groundouts...
...Vern Bickford, ace Boston Braves pitcher, arrived in Boston yesterday and had X-rays taken of his injured side. He was ordered to return for treatment by Manager Billy Southworth...
...first five minutes of last week's game it was nip & tuck. Then, when the score reached gall, Minneapolis spurted ahead. Two of its big guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...
Waldman devotes other portions of his back to such men as Luke Appling, Gene Bearden, Alvin Dark, Bob (Mr. Team) Elliott, Jim Hegan, Tommy Henrich, Ben Hogan, Johnny Mize, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Sain, Vern Stephens, Doak Walker, and four-fifths of the 1948 Kentucky basketball team--Barker, Beard, Grozs, and Jones...