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...Franklin Sain Jr. For three years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...
They include: Ted Anderson, Al Carter, Louis Cox, Bill Curwon, Ham Fish, George Hewitt, Henry Howells, John Hutchinson, Charlie Iselin, Ken Keniston, Jim Mathewson, John Merrick, Nat Ober, Ed Reynolds...
Second--bow, Mathewson; 2, Potter; 3, Aikman; 4, Saltonstall; 5, Atwood; 6, Merrick; 7, Carter; stroke, Rouner; cox, Burstyn...
Satchel, who might have ranked with such major-league greats as Mathewson, Walsh and Johnson had he been born white, and given a big-league chance before he was 44, was too good a showman to disappoint a crowd like that. Sticking mainly to his fast ball against the last-place Chicago White Sox, Paige worked with the kind of control that is almost a lost art among modern pitchers. He walked only one, struck out five, let only two runners get past first, won his fifth victory...
...boatings: Stroke; Rouner; 7, iselin; 6, Swanson; 5, Hewitt; 4, Kenlston; 3, Merrick; 2, Tomle; Bow, Mathewson; cox, Mazon...