Word: dodgerism
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Brooklyn had its wind knocked out last week. The Dodgers lost the National League pennant to the smashing St. Louis Cardinals on the last day of the season. But the big loss was the Big Wind: the Dodger president, Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail. Lieut. Colonel MacPhail, 52, reports next week to the Army, hopeful that his fighting experience (World War I and innumerable bar, hotel-lobby, and press-gallery fisticuffs) will get him combat duty...
That voodoo did it. Wearing Coaker Triplett's No. 20 last week, Cooper allowed only three hits (no Dodger reached second base), gave only one walk, scored two runs himself, shut out the Dodgers, 3-to-0. That mauling reduced Brooklyn's Bums-ten games ahead of St. Louis on Aug. 4-to a lead of only one slim game. Sure enough, next day, behind Southpaw Max Lanier, the Cards took the Dodgers again, 2-to-1, to tie for the lead...
With all this in mind, every U.S. baseball fan-including Wendell Willkie in Cairo, who reported he was "in a sweat" because he didn't know how the Dodgers had done for the last three games, and thus couldn't answer the main question of the U.S. troops in Egypt-knew that Buck Newsom was a natural Dodger. They were glad his fantastic Odyssey was over-Brooklyn to Jersey City to Macon to Little Rock to Chicago to Albany to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Washington to Boston to St. Louis to Detroit to Washington to Brooklyn...
Result of his first attempt as a 1942 Dodger: Cincinnati Reds, 0; Newsom, 2 -a four-hit whitewash which sounded to Owner MacPhail like Series money already in the cash register. But four days later, Bobo was terrible again-the Boston Braves knocked him out of the box in the sixth...
...publicity given to Ingersoll as a draft dodger has detracted attention from Marshall Field as a slacker. Field is of age to volunteer. . . . The term to fit him and all hysterical effeminates is coward...