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...fooled no one; it was not a major-league ball club. Its weird collection of refugees from the minors did not hit, field, hustle or get paid as big-leaguers should. As the season ended (with the Senators 47 games behind), even some of the staunchest fans were boycotting Griffith Stadium. Penny-pinching old (79) Clark Griffith, who had met similar crises in the past simply by firing the manager, knew that it would not be enough this time...
...sure, he fired his manager of the past two seasons, Joe Kuhel. Later, he proudly announced the purchase of Irv Noren, a promising outfielder from the Pacific Coast League, for $70,000. Last week, Griffith swung another deal he knew would please Washington fans: he signed up Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, his 52-year-old former "boy-wonder" manager, whom he had fired twice before...
...challenge the TV popularity of brash Milton Berle. Wynn's feelings for Berle, whom he can scarcely bring himself to mention by name, range from lofty superiority ("I've yet to see something original from that man") to pitying scorn ("He'll be the D.W. Griffith of TV-nobody will give him a job in a couple of years...
...Boston Red Sox pulled back out to one full game in front with a 6 to 4 night win in Griffith Stadium, Washington. Joe Debson gave up one run in the seventh and stumbled in the eighth as the Senators scored three runs. Walt Masterson preserved the southpaw's fourteenth...
...Eminence, Ky., Theater Owner Arey Miles pushed a campaign to improve the unmarked grave of Cinemaster David W. Griffith, who died last year. Collected so far, from three exhibitors...