Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deacon win throws the league into a three-way tie between Kirkland, Eliot, and Winthrop that will almost certainly have to be settled in a playoff next Tuesday. Today Kirkland faces Winthrop while Eliot has prospects of easy pickings against the Dudley Commuters who have won only once this year...
...Puritan win raised the possibility that the League race would end up in a tie, and force a playoff. The crucial game on Wednesday between Eliot and Kirkland is the key to the whole situation. If Kirkland (with a 4-1 record) defeats Eliot (5-0) then the three leaders will have identical records as they go into their last games on Friday, when Kirkland plays second place Winthrop and Eliot faces seventh place Dudley. If Eliot wins the Mastodons will walk into their second successive championship...
...Yankee management had timed things cagily. A week before, while everybody was watching the American League pennant playoff, they had fired popular Bucky Harris. Their complaint: Bucky hadn't been strict enough with playboys. Then, before the press could get around to objecting, the Yankees hired Casey, whom sportwriters all like...
...thrashed the Yankees,*and then there were two. Jittery Cleveland needed only one game to win, and couldn't win it. On the last day of the season, the Red Sox caught up. The first tie in American League history called for a one-game playoff. Manager Lou Boudreau of Cleveland tried to put on a brave front: "It just means going to Boston a day earlier...
BEAT RED SOX IN PLAYOFF...