Word: clincher
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...yesterday's clincher, junior righthander Bob Lincoln fired five and two-third innings of hitless ball before the weak Judges reached him. Senior Larry Melfa came in in the seventh and had an easy time, striking out four of the ten men he faced...
Still, Terrell made a great effort and never gave up. In the only game he won, he ran eleven straight points and out-positioned Nayar for the clincher...
...clincher for Williams was a 20-yard drive by left halfback Ernst, a beautiful bullet that caught Richie Hammond by surprise...
...Sickles had battered each other so badly that Mahoney emerged from the dust as the winner. The reason so many people were surprised was that no one wanted to admit Mahoney had a chance. But he did, and he did from the beginning. Open-housing was merely the clincher. Many Baltimore workers in the huge plants of Dundalk and Sparrows Point abandoned Finan when Mahoney forced him to take a stand...
...Crimson offense never got going, while the Lord Jeffs' Jaffer Kassam all set up a goal by his right wing in the second quarter and the clincher by his left wing in the third...