Word: thomson
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...league. It was perilously late in the season-the Giants were 13½ out of the lead on Aug. 11. But in a wild and breathless finish, they tied the Dodgers on the last day of the season, beat them in the playoff for the pennant, with Bobby Thomson's last-ditch "Home Run Heard 'Round the World." When they lost the World Series to the Yankees, the Giants comforted themselves with thoughts of next year...
...Southport, England, Australia's Peter Thomson, 24, became the youngest winner of the British Open golf tournament since Bobby Jones won at the same age in 1926. Thomson's 283 was just one stroke under Runners-up Bobby Locke, Syd Scott and Dai Rees, all bunched at 284. Closest American was Jim Turnesa, who tied for fifth with...
...Stewart Thomson, a hulking 250-pound giant from Yale, became the first triple-winner in the 20-year history of the Heptagonal Games, held at Soldiers Field Saturday, almost single-handedly giving the Elis their second straight championship...
Yale captured five events and tied for first in another, including Thomson's wins in the hammer throw, shot put, and discus. His toss of 180-feet-four-inches in the hammer broke the Heptagonal record of 178-5 1/4 set by the Crimson's Sam Felton in 1948, and the Soldiers Field record of 180 1/4 set by Felton in the same year...
...Stew Thomson, Tom Henderson, and Bill Donegan are the key performers for Coach Bob Giegengack's squad. Thomson and Henderson should take one and two in the discus, while paicing high in the shot put and hammer throw. Donegan is picked to win the pole vault...