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Many a baseball expert predicted at the beginning of the season that this year's World Series, if played at all, would take place on the Fourth of July. But last week U.S. baseball, major and minor, had survived the Fourth, had staged their midseason all-star games and were making elaborate plans for their October finales...
...last week one of the biggest baseball crowds of the year (62,000) showed up in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to get what might be a last look at some of the big-leaguers who are now in the Army & Navy. The game was the second of three all-star affairs staged on three successive nights for the benefit of the U.S. and Canadian armed forces...
Winter Baseball. All-Star Americans drawn from three teams playing in the Melbourne league won the feature baseball game from All-Star Australians 4-to-1, due largely to the pitching proficiency of one Private Johnny Lund, a big tobacco-chewing Swede from Portland, Ore., who holds the dubious distinction of being the property of the Philadelphia Phillies. Lund allowed only three hits, struck out nine in the seven-inning game. Losing pitcher was Aircraftsman George Dickinson, who was just as good. He gave only three hits in the five innings that he pitched -two of them veriest scratches...
From a 45-year-old play, the Army & Navy Relief Funds benefited handsomely last week, but a thirsty theater public benefited more. Revived with an all-star cast at special Broadway matinees, Shaw's Candida was greeted by despairing critics the way castaways greet a ship...
Soccer Coach Jim McDonald has scheduled a game for his local All-Star college team with the professional Boston Celtics for this Sunday. Besides Harvard, players from Tufts and M.I.T. will play for the collegiates...