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...game was a pitcher's battle, with Wallace holding the sailors to six hits and the visitors' hurler, Simmons, keeping the Crimson to five hits before he was removed for a pinch-hitter in the top half of the eighth inning...
Wallace and Simons then both clamped down, and the game lost interest until, with two out in the top half of the eighth, Quonset sent Lawson in to pinch-hit for Simons. Lawson bounced a fluke single high over Wallace's head, and then Bart doubled into left field, Lawson going to third. When the ball was thrown in to Lutz, he wheeled and relayed the ball in the general direction of second base trying to catch Bart. The throw was wild, and the runner scored...
...Swedes let it be known that by cutting their rations they could, in a pinch, feed the Finns...
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...Young, could not have been in much better shape. As the week wore on he struggled with Government bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history...