Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge's partisan baseball bugs will be able to place a lot of bets this morning, with the Giants and Sal Maglie (23-6) favored to take the third National League playoff game. But none of the bets will be taken by Harvard's leading baseball authority and most rabid rooter, Coach Stuffy McInnis...
...shame," the baseball coach went on, "that the National League has a three-game playoff, instead of only one. It's very disastrous to the pitchers just before the Series. Brooklyn's pitching staff is all worn out; and what if Jansen had to relieve Maglie for the Giants tomorrow? It takes the edge off the World Series...
...rare honor was a happy choice and a nice gesture. Ouimet has been a name in transatlantic golf ever since the day in 1913 when, as a 20-year-old, he whipped Britain's peerless pair, Harry Vardon (by five strokes) and Ted Ray (by six), in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. Since then, as a player or the non-playing captain of every U.S. Walker Cup team until 1949, Ouimet has won an unequaled place in the hearts of R. & A. members, surpassing even Bobby Jones...
...Harvard added former Bruin star Cooney Weiland to its list of coaches, and Weiland has continued to develop good squads as well as interest local talent in the educational advantages of Harvard. His teams have performed strongly in the fast company of Brown, Boston University, and Boston College national playoff sextets...
...games will be played on Soldiers Field in the afternoon, and it is hoped that competition can begin some time this week. Last year five teams played a full league schedule with a final "world series" playoff between Holworthy and Thayer Halls...