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...McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") $200,000 plus two players for Slugger Foxx and Hurler Johnny Marcum. Next month Yawkey will probably pay Mack another $200,000 for Infielder McNair and Outfielder Cramer. With Foxx at first base, with his accurate home-run eye fixed on Fenway Park's short left-field fence, dopesters figure Boston the most likely outfit to topple the World Champion Detroit...
...game was as good as over. Pitcher Root was withdrawn and three other Cubs who followed him?Malone, May. Tinning?managed to hold the Yankees down to one more run. The Cubs threatened in the ninth when Gabby Hartnett opened the inning with a homer into the left-field bleachers but Manager McCarthy of the Yankees withdrew Pipgras. sent in Herb Pennock, who played in his first World Series in 1914 and had never lost a World Series game since. Pennock made short work of the next three batters. Score: New York 7, Chicago...
...begin his career-Andy Cohen, second baseman, picked from the minor leagues to take the place of the famed Rogers Hornsby. And when Cohen had brought home the first Giant run of the season, had driven in the tying and winning runs with a two bagger against the left-field fence, had had a bat in every Giant rally, fielded quietly but effectively, and made the greatest debut in the history of baseball, the spectators, chilly no longer, rushed onto the field and carried Cohen off on their shoulders. "He'll draw like Ruth or Gehrig," said Manager John...
...Texas leaguer after a long run. Moulton walked after DeRham's muff of a foul had given him a life; Barbee, after handling Jenkins carefully, made the mistake of grooving what was to have been the third strike, and the Terrier backstop promptly plastered the ball along the left-field foul line for two bases...
Coach Davidson juggled his line up before yesterday's game, putting Durant in left-field and lead-off position in the batting order, and using Tobin at first instead of behind the plate. Duchin accordingly donned the catcher's mask...