Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 6, 1954

¶ At Williamsport, Pa., the Little League world series went to a band of bubblegum blowers from Schenectady, N.Y., who outlasted Colton, Calif, in the finals 7-5. Star of the game: Billy Masucci, twelve-year-old Schenectady pitcher, who smashed a two-run homer in the first inning, maintained his poise on the mound after beaning Colton's Harley Chapman (whose hand he shook in apology—see cut), struck out nine and allowed only four hits.

¶ At Bern, Switzerland, a band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung...

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