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...championship game is confidence. In varying degrees all champions must have a deep belief in themselves. Henri Cochet and Fred Perry had plenty of it; Tilden, the prissy virtuoso, had it to an insolent degree. It is the same quality that enabled Babe Ruth to point to the right-field bleachers at Wrigley Field during one World Series game and slam the most famed home run of his career...
Ruth's individual record (set in 1927) of 60 home runs in a season. With a golf-like swing, Babe Ruth used to send the ball to towering heights, drop it in the bleachers or loft it over the right-field roofs. Mize, a competent workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record...
...also opened the scoring in the third inning, Larry Falloni doubled along the right-field foul line, stole third base, and tallied on Espanet's fly to Walt Coulson. The Varsity, which had all kinds of trouble with Snow's slow, left-handed offerings, tied the count in the seventh on singles by Bill Barron, Bill Hamlen, and Lenny Lunder, the last named a pinch hitter for John Coppinger...
...Durocher also got the heave-ho. The Pirates, long experienced in treading the paths of banishment, began laying a carpet of towels for the Lip's exit. Durocher gave the towels a few kicks, then reached into a box of baseballs and scattered the pellets down the right-field foul line. Fine...
...Yankee chain, Tommy Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...