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Seeded third in this year's Easterns, Blakinger ran up against overpowering opposition. He took two straight preliminary matches, but dropped a 13-4 decision to Lehigh freshman Mike Frick, who went on to win the title...
...Frick, who usually weighs between 135-145 pounds, will be Blakinger's nemesis next year. Blakinger must contend with a size disadvantage if he is to place higher than sixth in the East...
Blakinger fell to top-seeded Mike Frick of Lehigh, 13-4, in a mismatched duel. Frick, who was the first freshman to win the championship, was too overpowering with his size advantage. Blakinger then lost to George Bryant of Pittsburgh, 10-2, and dropped a 6-5 decision to Princeton's Lee Klepper, whom Blakinger defeated earlier this season...
Starr will have an easy semifinal round today against Craig Tritch of Pittsburgh, who cannot match Starr for speed and endurance. Blakinger will have it rougher, as he faces top-seeded Mike Frick of Lehigh. Johnson meets a Syracuse opponent in an evenly-matched bout...
First Rickey had to chew out some Southern members of the Dodgers, most notably Georgia-born Dixie Walker, for organizing a ban-the-black petition. Then National League President Ford Frick was forced to intercede with a tough play-or-else edict to put down a proposed boycott of the Dodgers by a group of St. Louis Cardinals. On the field, though, race-baiting continued unabated, most stridently and offensively by the Philadelphia Phillies and their manager Ben Chapman. Once, when Robinson seemed ready to storm the Philadelphia bench, Dodger Shortstop Pee Wee Reese, Jackie's closest friend...