Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory was especially sweet to the Dodgers this year because they had lost by one-game margins in 1950 and 1951. Last year they saw a 13½-game lead fizzle away, wound up in a tie and lost the playoff when the Giants' Bobby Thomson clouted an unforgettable ninth-inning home run. This year Brooklyn was often wobbly, but always recovered in time...
...head, he is most downcast. One thing he is sure he wants is Memo Paris, the manager's redhaired, teasing niece. But what Memo wants is fun and money, big money. The temptation to get that money the fast, easy way by helping to throw a playoff game brings Roy to his final tragic crisis...
...National Open Golf Champion Julius Boros, the 18-hole playoff of the $90,000 "World" golf tournament, with a score of 68 to beat out Runner-Up Gary Middlecoff, who carded a 70, after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
Winter sports came to an end and the sophomores had been well-pre resented. The changing hockey lineup saw Edward Bailey. William Ellison, Hamlet, and Zarakov starting at one time or anther. The four win, two loss record was climaxed by the February Yale playoff. In finally won I to 0 after 87 minutes of play. For the first time since 1922 the basketball team, paced by sophomore John Leekley, won over Yale (34 to 25) and ended with a 12 win, two loss season...
...Deacons who were last in the House competition at the end of the fall season also won House crew this spring and placed second in House track. Before yesterday's playoff, Leverett, Kirkland and Eliot were tied for first in tennis, but the Deacons and Elephants were the only two in contention for the Straus Trophy...