Word: cincinnatis
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Devotion Lotion. In Cincinnati, William Stokes, 57, Bishop of the Spiritual Church of God, explained to police that the blackjack" he was carrying was for "protection of myself and my congregation," and the bottle of gin, for "sacrificial purposes...
...National League, Cincinnati will play the Phillies away, and Milwaukee will meet the Giants at the Polo Grounds. St. Louis will play the Pirates at Pittsburgh, and the Cubs will meet the Dodgers at Ebbets Field...
...Cincinnati gained its first victory of the season over the Milwaukee Braves, 11-6, in ten innings, after scoring twice to tie the score in the ninth. Baltimore was edged by the Senators, 3-2, in another extra-inning game, this one an 11-frame completion of an April 21 contest...
...When the Redlegs got him from Chicago last fall, he was ready to quit baseball if he did not have a good year. "I'm not going back to the minors," he told General Manager Gabe Paul. "I don't want to become a baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome Ransom Jackson. He hit a piddling...
...Tennessee. There he ploughed tobacco rows, hunted coons and went cat-fishing. Occasionally the sheriff would ask him and his mother to come down to the jail and sing hymns to the prisoners. At 18 he was a $10-a-week announcer on a local station, went on to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks," so Ernie went back to odd radio jobs. In California he joined Hillbilly Cliffie Stone's local show, Hometown Jamboree, and made some records...