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...long reach of the pennant. The Dodgers finished the week with two squeakers against the cellardwelling Chicago Cubs. But they managed to win both, despite umpires dedicated to the proposition that in a stretch drive anything goes. In the first inning of the second game, Chicago's Don Hoak broke up a double play with a spikes-first slide at Junior Gilliam, standing a "safe" two yards off the bag. Manager Alston was too preoccupied to protest...
Mostly Miscellaneous Things: Even ardent musician unionisis had to suppress grins when Local 77, Philadelphia, demanded and held tryouts for a musician to fire a cannon during the Tschalkovsky "Overture 1812" . . . New York scribes are listing Lester Young's solos (Count Basie) as being by "Jack Hoak" . . . Orchids to Red Nichols for the clever stunt of mailing all the record critics in the country five pennies separately with an announcement of more to come and then a nickel painted red with publicity about Red Nichoin and the Five Pennies...