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...neither White nor Beazley could have been a hero without Enos Slaughter, mightiest of the Missouri robber barons. Though his teammates call him "Country"-because he came to the Cardinal tryout camp straight from the North Carolina backwoods-there is nothing slow about Slaughter. He is the second-best batter (.318) in the National League, is almost a Ty Cobb on the bases, has a magnetic mitt and a mighty arm (developed, he says, pegging stones at rabbits when he was a shaver...
...Germans inched on into the environs of Stalingrad. Day by day, for four weeks, they had sent mountains of men and machines to batter the Red Army back across dusty steppes toward the Volga. Colossal expenditures bought each hillock, each ravine, each village, exacting of the Russians losses at least as heavy. The precise location of the battle line was not revealed by either Berlin or Moscow communiqués, but Moscow reported this week that fighting was going on "in Stalingrad." The heaviest pressure and steadiest German progress was from the southwest, toward the Volga bend directly below Stalingrad...
Vince Leahy, patrolling the left garden, recovered cleanly, but his throw in to the plate failed to cut down the Bruin base runner, who was running with the pitch. Floyd Stahl's infield quickly recovered its composure and slammed the gate on further scoring as Berg coaxed the next batter to bang into a lightning-like Harvey-to-Drake-to-Fitz double play. But the stallion had fled the stall, as subsequent happenings proved...
Edwards, scoreless until the bottom of the sixth, came up strong for their last Jicks. The first batter reached first on Bart Harvey's error, the next singled and both advanced on a passed ball. Fourth man up popped to Gallagher, but the next walked, filling the bases...
...short hit into right field then scored three runs and another walk from Phelan loaded the sacks again. A ground out to Harvey made it two down, but sent home the fifth Edwards' tally. Then, after the pitcher walked, the next batter singled to left, scoring two more runs and pocketing the ball game...