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Besides Williams and Pesky, two ex-Red Sox who need no introduction to anyone who has glanced at a sports page in the last two years, the naval team has oodles of talent. On the mound will be Johnny Sain, ex-Braves southpaw, who sparkled in relief work and as a starting pitcher. His catcher will be Fred Naumetz, center and co-captain of the Boston College football team last fall...
...Southpaw Shelly Sachs twirled the first no-hit game of the season yesterday afternoon, as Lowell House chalked up a 3 to 2 victory over Dudley Hall. House baseball and softball league competition got under way this week and will continue until examination period...
Ernie and The Tide. If there was one outstanding hero of last week's Series, it was Southpaw Ernie White. With the help of two miraculous one-handed catches by Outfielders Enos Slaughter and Terry Moore, White whitewashed the Yankees, 2-to-0-something that had not happened to them in a World Series in 16 years...
...Dodger reached second base), gave only one walk, scored two runs himself, shut out the Dodgers, 3-to-0. That mauling reduced Brooklyn's Bums-ten games ahead of St. Louis on Aug. 4-to a lead of only one slim game. Sure enough, next day, behind Southpaw Max Lanier, the Cards took the Dodgers again, 2-to-1, to tie for the lead...
Waldstein and Harrison each pitched seven-hit ball for the regulation distance, but starting in the 10th the effects began to tell on their hurling, and both bullpens opened shop. Floyd Stahl had Berg on hand to rush in when his powerful southpaw faltered in the 11th, but Smoky Joe Wood had no choice but to keep his starter in, since Nevell, his No. 2 mounds-man, had gone the route against Holy Cross on Wednesday...