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They are Joel E. Gordon '52, of Berkeley, California, and Lowell House; Garth C. Grissom 1L, of Syracuse, Kansas; Calvin S. Hamilton 3G, of Cambridge; Ernest B. Johnston '52, of Selma, Alabama, and Kirkland House; and Gareth Matthews 1G. of Franklin, Indiana...
...Detroit (Grissom) 4, Washington...
...baseman whom Manager Bill McKechnie had bought from the Phillies last summer, Pitcher Walters had a natural sinker (the reason he flopped as an infielder) and miracle Manager McKechnie had taught him some tricks of the trade; but the Reds had much abler pitchers in Johnny Vander Meer, Lee Grissom, Paul Derringer...
Last week, however, hardworking, lanky Bucky Walters whizzed past them all. So far this season he had won 19 games-five more than Derringer, twelve more than Grissom, 14 more than Vander Meer -and he was batting .338 to boot. He was not only the No. 1 pitcher of both major leagues but the difference between success and failure in the Reds' pennant race...
...McKechnie did the most amazing managerial job in the major leagues last year when, in his first year with the Reds, he brought them from the cellar to fourth place-only six games behind the pennant-winning Chicago Cubs. They might have won the pennant had not Pitcher Lee Grissom, rookie prodigy of the year before, broken his ankle in a stupid attempt at base-stealing toward the end of the season...