University Daily Kansan
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Giants Gain Title By Downing Bums
By UNITED PRESS
The Giants play the Dodgers today with aching heads and light hearts because Sal (The Barber) Magle already has assured them of a World Series date next Wednesday with the Cleveland Indians.
The Giants clinched the National league pennant last night a n d touched off showers of champagne in their clubhouse by whipping Brooklyn, 7-1. It was fitting that it was Maglie who squashed Brooklyn's faint hopes, officially ending the Dodgers' two-year reign as National league champions by limiting them to five hits in their own backyard.
For 37-year-old Sal always has been tough for the Dodgers, even when they were kings of the league. His lifetime record against Brooklyn stands at 22 victories against eight losses.
Maglie's 14th 1954 victory put New York $6 \frac{1}{2} $ games ahead of the Dodgers, who have only five remaining games.
Willie Mays, Hank Thompson, and Monte Irvin backed Maglie's pitching with clutch hitting. They collected eight of New York's 14 hits and accounted for five of the seven runs.
A Mays' single scored Whitey Lokman in the first inning and Thompson followed with a single that scored Al Dark with what proved the winning run. Carl Erskine, Dodger right hand who suffered his 14th defeat, was on the short end of a 2-Lscore in the sixth when the Giants sewed it up by scoring twice on Don Mueller's single plus doubles by Thompson and Irvin.
Mays topped off the flag clinching by getting three hits in five official times at bat to take over the league batting lead with a .344 average. Brooklyn's Duke Snider went hitless in three official tries, slipping to .340.
634. Cleveland ran its latest winning streak to 11 straight by defeating the Chicago White Sox, 7-4. Cleveland now has 109 victories, one shy of the American league record set
Christy Mathewson, Grover Alexander, and Mordecai Brown—all right handers—the only other NL pitchers in modern baseball to win 20 games six or more seasons.
Thirty million babies have been born in the U.S. since World War II. The number of young people under 20 in the U.S. is now 11 million greater than in 1940. This is a growth equal to the combined population of Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Cleveland.
The Washington Senators edged the Yankees, 3-2, with an unearned run in the ninth inning and the Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 4-3, in other American league night action. Ted Williams' 28th homer and Tom Brewer's fourhit pitching led the Boston Red Sox to a 5-2 afternoon victory over the Philadelphia Athletics.
by the 1927 Yankees. Bob Feller boosted his record to 13-3, helped by Larry Doby's three-run homer, but needed help from Hal New-houser and Ray Narleski.
The only other National league games were day contests. The St. Louis Cardinals scored five times in the 10th for a 7-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Braves split with the Cincinnati Redlegs, winning 6-2 and then losing, 3-1. Warren Spahn of the Braves joined a select circle when he won the first game to become the first left-hander in modern National league history to post six 20-victory seasons.
The United States Army Medical Library in Washington, D.C., maintains a photo-duplication service that makes copies of printed medical material available at cost to research workers throughout the world.
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1954
There was a glow on Leo's face when he was asked whether the Giant victory this year made him as happy as the "miracle" 1951 triumph climaxed by Bobby Thomson's playoff homer.
Mays, Antonelli Lead Giant Drive
Brooklyn — (U,P)— Manager Leo Durocher singled out centerfielder Willie Mays and pitcher Johnny Antonelli today as "the two key men" in the New York Giants' drive to the National league pennant.
"The Giants have been good in the clutch all year," Alston said. "I don't see why they shouldn't be tough in the Series."
"I said in the spring we'd be tough if Willie and Antonelli came through," Leo said. "Well, they came through and I was right. They were picking us to finish third in the spring but I knew we were a better team than that. I won't say I thought we would win the penchant, but I knew we were better than third."
"This bunch isn't as dramatic as the 1951 bunch." Leo conceded with a broad grin. "But they've made me just as happy. They're a better team than the 1951 team—got more bench and more bullpen."
Mays slashed two singles and a double to take over the National league batting lead with a .344 batting mark in last night's 7-1 clincher over the Brooklyn Dodgers, while Antonelli has a 21-6 won-and-lost record and leads the league in earned run average.
Durocher insisted he "hasn't given the World Series a thought," but Brooklyn manager Walt Alston warned the Cleveland Indians "to expect a tough fight."
In the tumult of the victorious dressing room last night. Durocher had praise for everyone—except himself.
"They were all just wonderful, just wonderful." Durocher said. "In the clutch, they had it. This is a team that seems to play its best in the clutch. They did all year long."
League Leaders
National League
Player and Club AB H Pct.
Mays, New York ... 544 187 .344
Snider, Brooklyn ... 570 194 .340
Mueller, New York ... 595 201 .338
Musial, St. Louis ... 571 190 .335
Kluszewski, ... 560 185 .330
American League
American Legend
Avila, Cleveland ... 540 182 .337
Minoso, Chicago ... 552 180 .326
Noren, New York ... 417 134 .321
Fox, Chicago ... 613 196 .320
Kuenn, Detroit ... 635 198 .312
Home Runs
Kluszewski, Redlegs ... 49
Mays, Giants ... 41
Hodges, Dodgers ... 40
Mathews, Braves ... 39
Sauer, Cubs ... 39
Runs Batted In
Kluszewski, Redlegs ... 139
Snider, Dodgers ... 125
Musial, Cardinals ... 125
Berra, Yankees ... 124
Hodges, Dodgers ... 123
Runs
Mantle, Yankees 123
Musial, Cardinals 119
Mays, Giants 117
Snider, Dodgers 116
Minoso, White Sox 116
Hits
Mueller, Giants ... 201
Kuenn, Tigers ... 198
Fox, White Sox ... 196
Snider, Dodgers ... 190
Musial, Cardinals ... 190
Moon, Cardinals ... 189
Pitching (Based on 14 decisions)
Pitching
W. L. Pct.
Consuegra, White Sox 16 3 84
Feller, Indians 16 3 813
Lemon, Indians 23 6 793
Antonelli, Giants 21 6 778
Grim, Yankees 19 6 760
Finnish Lapland, covering 38,000 square miles and warmed by the Norwegian Current of the Gulf Stream, is Finland's fastest growing area, says the National Geographic Society. There are about 34,000 Lapps today, more than ever before, spread across the boundaries of four countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The Lapp population trend is expected to continue unward.
National League
How They Stand
W. L. Pct G.B.
x-New York 94 54 .635
Brooklyn 88 61 .591 6½
Milwaukee 86 61 .571 8½
Cincinnati 73 77 .487 22
St. Louis 70 78 .473 24
Philadelphia 69 77 .473 24
Chicago 60 89 .403 34
Pittsburgh 53 94 .361 40½
Vesterday's Results
x-clinched pennant
American League
**Yesterday's Results**
St. Louis 7 Chicago 2 (10 innings)
Milwaukee 6 Cincinnati 2 (1st)
Cincinnati 3 Milwaukee 1 (2nd)
New York 7 Brooklyn 1 (night)
(Only games scheduled)
American
W. L. Pct G.B.
x-Cleveland 109 40 .732
New York 100 49 .671
Chicago 92 671 .613
Boston 65 83 .439
Detroit 65 84 .436
Washington 64 84 .432
Baltimore 52 98 .347
Philadelphia 49 100 .329 60
deportant
x-clinched pennant
Yesterday's Results
Yesterday's Results
Boston 5 Philadelphia 2
Washington 3 New York 2 (night)
Cleveland 7 Chicago 4 (night)
Detroit 4 Baltimore 3 (night)
The U.S. maintains two ocean stations in the Pacific to aid weather and navigation studies. One ship is stationed 900 miles northeast of Honolulu, the other mid-way between Honolulu and Tokyo.
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Land's largest flesh eater, the Alaskan brown bear, inhabits Alaska Peninsula's inlets and islands. It may weigh three-fourths of a ton and when standing erect towers nine feet.
The first Lutheran service on American soil was held on Christmas day, 1619, when a group of Danish settlers, ravished by scurvy, held services on the shores of Hudson bay before returning to Denmark.
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Petroleum amounted to 93.6 per cent of all minerals produced in Texas in 1953.
MEN
You are invited to the first all-campus meeting of your
7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Sept.23rd Jayhawk Room Student Union
SEE
- "Touchdown Town U.S.A." the motion picture story of coach "Chuck" Mather's championship team at Massillon, Ohio.
HEAR
- Rev. Dale E. Turner, Plymouth Congregatioal Church speak on, "What on Earth Are You Doing?"
REVIEW
- The "Y's" Program of Activities for the Year
1. Social events with the YWCA 3. Bible Study Groups 5. Monthly Stag Programs
2. Freshman Discussion Groups 4. KU—World Fellowship 6. Intramural Sports
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