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...sixth, the Dodgers jumped on Reynolds for three runs, on a four-bagger by first-baseman Gil Hodges, a single by Billy Cox, and Shuba's pinch homer. Sain came on to relieve Reynolds, but soon found himself in trouble as the Dodgers put together the game-tying run on successive singles by Roy Campanella, Hodges, and Carl Furillo...
Five Dodger regulars are hitting over .300: Outfielder Carl Furillo leads the league at .344; Outfielders Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson, First Baseman Gil Hodges and Catcher Roy Campanella are among the league's top batters. The Dodgers have hit a club record of 196 home runs-40 of them by Campanella, who has also set an alltime catcher's record for runs batted in (139). Brooklyn leads the league in fielding, and its pitching staff, though weakened by the failure of last year's relief man Joe Black to come through as a regular starter...
...could easily be lost in the whirl is Giovanni Verge's Little Novels of Sicily (Grove). Verga, who died in 1922, was one of Italy's great writers, and these strong, tender stories of life at its most universal levels are among his best. After Verga, Frenchman Gil Buhet's The Innocent Knights (Viking) may seem like Gallic fluff. Actually, it is a charming story about a gang of schoolboys who shut themselves up in a moated ruin until their unjust elders and schoolmasters are ready to treat them like human beings...
...Bubba, he boasted, could hold his breath four minutes. The lad trotted 15 minutes on a treadmill, set to duplicate an 8½% grade, to prove that his oxygen intake per pound of weight was more than that of any recorded human other than Runner Gil Dodds. Kathy caused Russ some embarrassment-sometimes she cried in public. In 1949, two Miami women complained to the police that he treated the little girl cruelly; while his car was stopped at a traffic light, they said, they had seen him hit her with his fist and rub a dirty...
...Gil Murray took second in the shot, while Emil San Soucie was third in the two mile. The Crimson mile relay team of Phil Meyers, Richards, Rittenburg and Howe was second behind Yale's 3:22. Thresher and Price sparked the Ell quartet...