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...British patrol, poking into a dugout in no man's land (which the Chinese usually occupied by night, the British by day), stumbled across two grinning Chinese still there. Flustered but polite, the British backed off without either side firing a shot. When word of this reached the British brigadier, he exclaimed: "I'll have to get instructions on this. After all, my chaps might have fired. Why, there might have been a diplomatic incident...
...miracle that Miviedom's Dodgers won a single game. None of the extras could swing a bat properly, and they all insisted on sitting in their dugout while the other team was up at the plate. These ineptitudes, however, are hardly worth mentioning, because after all the show is nothing more than a delightful farce...
...genuine as a Spalding label. So were his cleated shoes, his tilted cap and his shambling, plate-bound walk. It was hard not to believe he was some weathered stray from the Polo Grounds who would presently wheel, find himself in the wrong park, and bolt for the dugout...
Emmons retired one batter, allowed two walks, was reached for a pair of line drive singles, and went back to the dugout...
...little too loudly at the umpire, was tossed out of the game (for the second time this season). Then he turned up in street clothes in a box alongside the bench, from where he could still direct the show, was chased again. Next, he turned up in the dugout disguised as an Ebbets Field groundkeeper. Chased for the third time, he was fined $100 for disobeying the umpire, happily paid it: he had impressed his win-or-bust ballplayers...