Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 27, 1954

¶At Detroit’s Briggs Stadium, the Cleveland Indians edged out the Tigers, 3-2, and clinched the 1954 American League pennant. In Philadelphia the longtime (five years) champion New York Yankees scrambled for a 6-5 victory over the Athletics to nail down second place. Meanwhile, in the National League, the New York Giants moved toward the World Series, pushed from behind by the bumbling Dodgers, who, if not dead, plainly had a death wish.

¶At Baltimore, dour Paul Richards, who led the Chicago White Sox out of the wilderness of the American League’s second division in 1951 and has kept them in third place ever since, was named general manager and field manager of the moulting Orioles (née the St. Louis Browns). Richards’ successor in, Chicago: mild Marty (“Mr. Shortstop”) Marion, who flopped with the Browns in 1951.

¶At Watkins Glen, N.Y., twisting for 101.2 miles around a rain-slicked course, Connecticut’s Phil Walters in his Cunningham Special cut corners and roared wide open down the straightaways to average 83.3 m.p.h. and win his second International Grand Prix. In second place: Chicago’s Jim Kimberley in a Ferrari.

¶At Montgomery. Ala., for the second year in a row, Mississippi Southern (2,000 students) scored the season’s first major football upset by edging out Alabama, 7-2.