Word: home-run
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...first Detroit batter made a home-run. Pitcher Rowe hugged him, cuffed him happily on the head. When he went to bat himself, two men were on base. His hit scored the winning run. By the time Detroit took the field the score was Detroit 4, Washington 2. Rowe struck out the last two batters, threw his glove in the air, rode off on the shoulders of the crowd...
...most exciting play of the game was a beautiful, money-making hit by George Blackwood. The ball landed on the state road behind the field for a sure home-run, only to be called out-of-bounds by a foot...
...Floyd Newkirk whose pitching hand, like that of famed Mordecai Brown, onetime Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman of the Dodgers who, on the first day of practice at Orlando, hit the first ball ever pitched to him by a big-leaguer for a home-run. Considered ablest last week, when most of their confrères were on their way back to minor league teams, were the Yankees' young second baseman and shortstop, Don Heffner and Red Rolfe, who last week seemed likely to be regulars this season. Heffner is a young Baltimorean...
...sent in Walter Stewart, like Hubbell a lefthander. It made good fun, but not for Pitcher Stewart. The first man to face him made first base on an error. Mel Ott, short, boyish rightfielder. stepped to bat for his first time in a World Series and bashed a home-run into the right-field stand. Again in the third, Ott (who was to make four hits in four chances) drove in a run, and drove Stewart out of the box. The Giants, whom sports writers had called "the hitless wonders" of the National League, were ahead...
...Exeter's baseball team: the annual game against Andover, 3 to 1, largely because of the good pitching of Jack Batten, who helped further with a home-run in the fourth inning; at Exeter, N. H. Fifty-fourth game in the Exeter v. Andover series, it tied the score at 27 victories each...