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Cloveland has waited out injuries to Luke Easter, Bob Feller, and Larry Doby. But its percentage has risen well over .100 points. Boston has replaced Walt Dropo in the lineup with Clyde Vollner. And Dropo never turned in such an exhibition of the utmost value to the team as Vollner has in the past weeks. But Boston's pace has been steady, on the whole, with minor spurts counteracting minor slumps. Chicago, of course, has slipped out of the picture in a sudden two-week debacle...
Some 50,000 fans sat on the edge of their seats for the first game, which the Red Sox finally won, after staving off Chicago's two-run rally in the ninth inning. Clyde Vollmer, the least celebrated member of Boston's all-star outfield, won the game with a seventh-inning home run. Score: 3-2. The second game was even tighter. At the end of nine innings the score was 4-4. Not until the 17th inning, the longest night game in American League history, did the Red Sox win, 5-4. The man who drove...
...taken the teams a record 36 innings to settle two successive games.* After that glorious comeback, the limp Chicago fans expected their heroes to sweep the fourth game for an even break. The White Sox led, 2-1, going into the ninth, but lost, 3-2. The buster-upper: Clyde Vollmer. It was the sixth time in seven games that he had knocked in the winning...
...been exhibited and sold out more than once in Manhattan. More important, he had found and married a striking brunette named Betsy James, the daughter of a summer neighbor, who had made up her mind to be a helpful wife. They built a summer place at Gushing, near Port Clyde, took over an old schoolhouse in Chadds Ford for winter living...
...Married. Clyde Beatty, 45, the big top's No. 11ion & tiger trainer; and Mrs. Lorraine Abel, 29, nightclub singer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Bellingham, Wash...