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Warsaw greeted the Red Army with a terrible silence-the silence of death. For Warsaw was one vast black mound of wreckage, above which ravaged buildings still stood like lightning-blasted trees. Two sieges (by the Germans and the Russians) and the fierce uprising of the Polish underground had reduced the city to dust and ashes. A few half-starved people crawled out of the rubble. With bony fingers they pointed the way to huge ditches dug by the Germans in Warsaw's heart-the mass graves that entombed many of the city's inhabitants...
...lich's sports arena was an oval enclosure formed by a mound eight or ten feet high, in which were three football fields and a concrete swimming pool. U.S. artillery and planes dealt the defenders a merciless beating. A pillbox under a haystack was unmasked and heavily shelled. But when the infantry moved in across open fields, German mines and machine guns time & again drove them back. A bridge over which the defenders got reinforcements was knocked out by the Ninth's cannon every day. Every night the Germans put it up again...
...sloppy fielding which caused the loss of both of these encounters, and offset the superlative pitching jobs of Jack Wallace, but Stahl's ace contributed three errors himself, all on tricky grounders to the mound...
Jack Wallace, Coach Stahl's ace hurler, "brought it on himself." Jack came down off the mound to make two misplays in the fatal sixth, and that proved to be the ball game...
Oddly enough, the hits were evenly divided at eight apiece, the big difference being that three of the visitors' blows were home-runs. Jack Wallace, Crimson pitching mainstay, didn't exactly find the opposition but at no time was he actually in danger of being knocked off the mound...