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Marv Grissom, who relieved Sal Maglie in the eighth inning, got credit for the victory over Bob Lemon, who went all the way. Today, John Antonelli will probably face Early Wynn in the second game of the Series...
...Braves faltered, stood a formidable 4½ games off the pace. But the Giants were ready. By spoonfeeding his puny pitching staff, Manager Leo Durocher had saved his two aces: southpaw, Johnny Antonelli, 24, who has won 20 games, nearly a quarter of all Giant victories, and creaking Sal Maglie, 37, who has won 13 big ones. What is more, the Giants still have Willie Mays...
...three years ago, substantially the same Giant team as today's started the season like bushers. A converted outfielder named Whitey Lockman was learning to play first base. On third, another converted outfielder, Henry Thompson, was booting oftener than a cavalryman's cobbler. Such seasoned pitchers as Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen were giving away runs as if they were CARE packages...
...SAL has consistently made money except for two depression and two World War II years when seven of her freighters were sunk. Since 1946. SAL has paid annual dividends of 15%, and last year tossed in a 25% stock bonus. As an unsubsidized line, SAL does not have to buy in Sweden if prices are less elsewhere. The Kungsholm was built in Holland of German steel, uses Danish diesels and U.S. air conditioning...
...SAL's stock is widely held by small Swedish investors (and 508 Americans), but working control of the line, which runs 24 ships, belongs to Sweden's Broström Lines, one of the world's ten biggest (694,483 tons) shippers. The combine was started in 1865 when 27-year-old Axel Broström borrowed money to buy a wooden trading ketch, Mathilda. Last week Axel's grandson and SAL's board chairman, Tor Erland Broström, stood on the Kungsholm's glassed-in decks and beamed as New York harbor...