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...last year's World Series (a .500 average, including one homer, one triple and two doubles). At week's end Wertz's doctors reported "no signs" of paralysis, but he will probably be out for the rest of the season. Temporary replacement at first base: Ferris Fain, onetime hardhitting first baseman (.344 in 1951) for the Philadelphia Athletics...
Ankles Aweigh (music & lyrics by Sammy Fain & Dan Shapiro; book by Guy Bolton & Eddie Davis) made a few miscalculations. It used a thoroughly uninspired score. It settled for extremely commonplace lyrics. It paid little attention to the dancing. Its book floats, on a rusty keel, all over the Mediterranean and unloads benumbing wheezes at every port of call. Nor are Betty and Jane Kean among Broadway's leading leading ladies. Betty can be funny, and both at moments are fun, but theirs is distinctly a rationed, or nightclub, charm...
...make mention of the walks in the Yard has come to be, in the course of College generations, as bad form as to talk about the weather. But though we realize this we would fain make a suggestion. Apparently it is impossible to keep the walks dry, by subsurface drainage. But a certain amount of labor, applied promptly, in proper quantity, and with intelligence, would often take its place...
...hustling, bustling and fiery. It lacks heavyweight hitting, but will try to make up for it by defensive skill, tight pitching, and speed on the base paths. Richards was more than content this winter to trade slugging First Baseman Eddie Robinson (22 homers) for Philadelphia First Baseman Ferris Fain, who hit enough singles last year to become league batting champion (.327). Fain will be Richards' "take-charge" man in a. tight defensive infield that includes Second Baseman Nelson Fox, Shortstop Chico Carrasquel and Veteran Third Baseman Vernon Stephens...
...remainder of the squad includes 1b, Fain, Athletics; 2b, Robinson, Dodgers; 3b, Rosen, Indians; 22, Rizzuto, Yankees; lf, Sauer Cubs, rf, Musial, Cardinals; cf, Mantle, Yankees; c, Berra Yankees; and rhp, Roberts, Phillies...