Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the Pumpkin Circuit. It took him no time at all to figure out what he wanted to do. "Banking and horse racing wouldn't have went together," he decided. "Folks think all horse trainers are horse thieves...
...ancient Cawood clan, which dominated the county, was cool to his kind of law enforcement. Sheriff Jim Cawood couldn't seem to find many bootleggers, and most of those got off. County Attorney Bert Howard and Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith were Cawood adherents. So was Circuit Judge Jim Forester: Judge Willie Bob's convictions were regularly reversed in Jim Forester's court...
...Princeton infield is one of the best in the circuit. It is headed by shortstop Jim Fairchild, 20-year-old Marine vet who played varsity ball in 1946 while a freshman. Fairchild, an outfielder on the Second Marine Division nine last year, stole 54 bases against reasonably tough opposition. Besides pitching, Dickman also emphasizes speed, and Fairchild has speed. He has already swiped ten bases and is aiming for a League record in that department...
Bayard Robb, Lowell pitcher who made his debut in the circuit yesterday, held the losing Elephants down to five hits, and allowed no walks. Eliot's Dick Saul (regularly the first baseman) did a reasonably good job of smoothing over the Mastadon pitcher-lack, but the Bellboys tapped him for eight safeties...
Dudley, on the other hand, has the weakest pitching. Dave Bishop, the catcher, is efficient enough, as is third baseman Herby Lewis. The Commuters are not first division material, but no team in the circuit will be able to beat them without sweating. Dudley lost to Lowell, 3 to 2, in its only game...