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...Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than 95% of the games he has started. At 32, Outfielder Duke Sniders hair is grey, but his steel-blue eyes are as sharp as ever, his gimpy knee is responding...
...Dodgers have men to match. Towering (6 ft. 6 in.. 205 Ibs.) Don Drysdale (13-6) is the ace of a slick young pitching staff, and Third Baseman Jim Gilliam (.318) always seems to be on base. But the biggest man of all in the Dodger infield is that old pro-and beloved Brook-lynite-First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped...
...Carl Furillo are both over 35 and obviously are tapering off. Duke Snider hit .312 last year, but even with the right field fence moved in, his power is wasted in the Coliseum. Wally Moon, a good hitter but a notoriously poor fielder should play some along with Junior Gilliam. Hodges and Charlie Neal are set at first and second but no one knows who will play opposite them...
...from foreseeing a further increase in leukemia from anything (meaning nuclear power) that has developed in the last 15 years, Epidemiologists Alexander G. Gilliam and William A. Walter declare in Public Health Reports: present trends "provide no support whatsoever" for such a pessimistic view. On the contrary, they say, the data suggest that exposure to whatever causes operate to produce leukemia (which nobody knows) has leveled off or actually decreased...
...Addressing the Arizona State Conference of Social Welfare last week, Denver's Juvenile Court Judge Philip B. Gilliam warned that 20 million youngsters will be moving into the delinquency-age field by 1968. Asked Gilliam: "Can you handle this load with your present facilities for welfare, recreation, police and education? . . . We don't understand juvenile delinquency. We've been told there is no such thing as a bad boy. Well, we're wrong. Most juvenile delinquents are meaner than hell...