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...insistent ringing of the telephone woke George W. ("Bud") Roe, portly, red-faced managing editor of Hearst's Oakland (Calif.) Post-Enquirer, at 7 a.m. one day last week. On the line was his publisher, Ingraham Read, with an eye-opening message. Said Read: "We're closing the paper today...
...playing field of London's Roe-hampton Club had been groomed to billiard-table smoothness for the 76th annual croquet (in England, rhymes with pokey) championship of the world. Four enterprising foreigners-two Irishmen, an Australian and a South African-had managed to get entered among the 41 starters. But they went down quietly, and after that it was an All-England affair. The finalists, tall, willowy 45-year-old defending Champion H. O. Hicks (five-time winner since 1932) and stout 60-year-old Geoffry Reckitt, put on what most spectators decided was an "awfully good show...
...Race. As the major leagues headed into the Fourth of July weekend, it was that kind of pitching, not the hitting, that made the difference. With only two reliable starters (Preacher Roe and Don Newcombe), the favored Dodgers were wallowing along in a tight six-way race. In the American League, the Detroit Tigers had jumped into a commanding lead over the favored Red Sox, whose hitting could not match the Tigers' pitching...
Brooklyn (Roe) 3, Cincinnati...
Brooklyn (Roe) 7, Philadelphia...