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Bran Flakes & Kisses. The temperature was a chilly 46° when the Tigers and Cubs squared off for their big tea party last week. What followed was enough to give any big-league manager chills & fever. No exceptions were Chicago's banjo-strumming Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm and Detroit's pug-nosed Irishman, Steve O'Neill. And what went for them went for their wives: plump, chestnut-haired Lillian Lyle Grimm and dark, buxom Mary Boland O'Neill...
...Says Grimm: "Holy Cats-I love...
...Grimm's Cubs have pitching to match their hitting. Claude Passeau (won 14, lost 4) and Hank Wyse (18-8) are the two league-leading hurlers. Behind them is ex-Yankee Hank Borowy, whom the pennant-hungry Cub's management wangled out of the American League (TIME, Aug. 6) for a round $100,000 worth of players and/or cash...
...Jolly Cholly" Grimm learned the hard way to take it easy. During the '305, he won two Cubs' pennants in three years, then was banished to the minors when his '38 team began cracking in midseason. Rescued from Milwaukee last year, he had become philosophical enough to treat his adult hired-help like adults. He served beer in the dressing room after each game, and concentrated on getting team spirit. How well the spirit moves the Cubs is apparent in their record: they have won 42 of their last 54 games...
This week at Wrigley Field, Grimm & Co. face the first of a dozen tough games with the second-place Cardinals. If the Cubs come through, there is little chance of their being stopped short of the World Series...