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...records. In his third major-league season he won 20 games-a record no other Philly had even flirted with since the hard-drinking days of the late great Grover Cleveland Alexander. Now, six years later, he has yet to fall back below the 20-game mark.* No major-leaguer has done so well since the days (1925-33) of the Philadelphia Athletics' Lefty Grove...
...California court, Tyrus Raymond ("The Georgia Peach") Cobb, 68, always a crusty gamecock on the baseball diamond, faced a $50,000 personal injuries suit slapped on him by Elbert D. Felts, oldtime Pacific Coast Leaguer, ex-hunting companion and ex-friend of Cobb's. Felts claimed that Cobb, outraged because he had been stuck with a dinner check, attacked him and aggravated an old back injury. The jury, though not exactly swayed by Ty's plea of self-defense (he has had two heart attacks), decided that Felts's injuries did not merit payment of damages, voted...
...down with a sore arm. Podres, who "won only nine games in the regular season, had not lasted a full nine innings in league play since June 14. In late summer, the Dodger front office thought of shunting him to the disabled list and bringing up a minor leaguer who might be more help. But Alston gambled on starting him in the third series game, and Podres beat the Yankees. The manager and Podres himself were confident that the youngster could do it again. "I'll shut them out," said cocky, gum-chewing Johnny Podres. "I can beat those...
Major credit for the excellent record belongs to coach Norm Shepard, a former major leaguer, who is coaching the team for the first time this year...
Wrong Looks. Young Robert Merriam, 36, was handicapped by the fact that he looks like a South Side Chicago image of an Ivy Leaguer. He pleaded with reporters not to call him reformer, a prejudicial word in Chicago. "You know what the party workers say?" he complained. "They say to each other, 'Have you ever seen this Merriam take a drink? Does he ever drink? I mean, have you actually seen him take a drink?' " (Some people have...