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Well before last week's game, Chappuis had been primed on pro football by the Dodgers' Left Halfback Hunchy Hoernschemeyer and veteran Fullback Mickey Cornier. Said Mickey, who is 29 and balding: "There's spirit in pro football, but it's cold spirit. You produce, or you don't get your pay." At Ebbets Field, under the arc lights, the band played Michigan as the 900-man Michigan Club of New York gave Bob Chappuis a scroll wishing him "the best of luck." But Chappuis, the top Dodger name, saw little action: he had missed...
...first half, the Dodgers surprised an apathetic crowd by holding the favored Yankees, last year's Eastern Division champs, and led 3-0 at half time. But in the Dodger locker room, Guard Tex Warrington passed out cold from the heat, Mickey Colmer fell on his face, and Hunchy Hoernschemeyer had to take smelling salts to get back on the field...
Yankee Dash. On the first play after the kickoff in the third quarter, Hunchy plunged off tackle, sprinted 60 yards before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway...
...Pittsburgh's Schenley Hotel, where the Giants themselves first heard about their new boss, the players sat around like men in a trance until 4 p.m., when Leo breezed into town. He was bulging with confidence. He had been studying the Giants from the Dodger dugout. He pointed to Johnny Mize, his new first baseman, and said: "Mize, you know you're no Hal Chase around the bag, but you're a good player and a great hitter. I want you to show a little life . . ." Then he singled out Catcher Walker Cooper: "When...
...Dodgers and Giants were neck & neck in fourth place when Durocher and Shotton took over their new jobs last week. Whether either of them could now win a pennant would be one test of the big change. A more immediate test, and more crucial to the club owners, was whether the Giant and Dodger fans who had been staying away from their ball parks most of the season would now throng back...