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...trade two years ago of their old favorite, Enos Slaughter. They made only a routine beef when General Manager Frank Lane got rid of such bright hopes as Outfielder Bill Virdon (now batting .311 for Pittsburgh), Pitcher Brooks Lawrence (who has won 16, lost 7 for Cincinnati) and Southpaw Harvey Haddix (who has won 11, lost 5 for Philadelphia). They even managed to sit still for the trading of Infielder Red Schoendienst (who is hitting .319 for the Giants).* All this, they were told, was going to buy them a pennant-this year. Still they are limping along in fourth...
Musial has brightened big-league ball for 15 years. And baseball has been as good to the onetime southpaw pitcher who learned how to spin a left-handed curve on the grimy sandlots of Donora, Pa. For one thing, it kept him out of the zinc mills; even better, for the last five years the Cards have paid him $80,000 a season. Trading shrewdly on his reputation, he now owns half of a successful St. Louis restaurant (Stan Musial and Biggie's), is a bank director and has a piece of half a dozen other well-paying businesses...
...promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target by a gentlemanly margin...
...After two bad seasons plagued by assorted arm ailments, the Boston Red Sox's aging (34) Southpaw Mel Parnell demonstrated that he is no longer on the way back but has arrived. Parnell stopped the White Sox 4-0, pitched the first American League no-hit game since Bobo Holloman and the St. Louis Browns beat the Philadelphia Athletics...
Early power hitting brought Yale a 5-3 victory in New Haven in May, but Kessler's tricky southpaw slants baffled the Elis. Kessler, who edged Amherst 3 to 2 last Saturday, will be seeking his third win in a week, after beating Boston College last Wednesday. With Captain Ken Rossano probably out for the season with a broken thumb on his glove hand, senior Kessler figures to hurl the Crimson's last two games as well, against Yale today and Monday...