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...bullpen is one of baseball's top relief men: ElRoy Face (10-8), who throws a dipping forkball that induces rally-killing grounders. For the Yankees, fading Whitey Ford (12-9) still looks able to pitch two big games with know-how and his sharp curve, and Art Ditmar (15-9) has developed into a steady winner with his slider. But Bob Turley (9-3) now throws more benders than bullets, and Stengel may be forced to depend heavily on a 22-year-old rookie named Bill Stafford...
Vernon Law, a 20-game winner, will be manager Danny Murtaugh's choice for the opening game at Forbes Field. He will be opposed on the mound by another righthander, Art Ditmar, whose 15-9 record makes him one of Stengel's top pitchers...
Ryne Duren, Casey Stengel's flame-thrower who followed Whitey Ford and Art Ditmar to the mound, fired his blinding fast ball past the Braves from the sixth to the 10th when he suddenly lost his stuff. The big fellow with the thick glasses struck out the side in the sixth and ninth, fanning eight in 4 2/3 innings before he faltered with two out in the 10th...
When a wild first-inning pitch by Yankee Art Ditmar barely missed the plastic capped head of White Sox Outfielder Larry Doby, protocol demanded a few angry words. Doby obliged. Ditmar answered in kind. Doby countered with a left hook somewhat more accurate than Ditmar's fast ball, and Ditmar dropped. Men from both sides piled in. Even with the Chicago cops to help them, the umpires took 28 minutes to put down the fight. By then, Yankees Enos Slaughter and Billy Martin had been ordered off the field, along with Chicago's First Baseman Walt Dropo...
Captain Win Overholser and George McNair each won two in the epee, an event in which Bob Ditmar of Wesleyan swept his bouts. Sophomore Harry Ziel went undefeated in the saber for Rene Peroy's team. The Crimson won the foil, seven to two, the saber, five to four, and lost the epee, four to five...