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After they drove knuckleballer Dutch Leonard (16-7) to cover-Leonard pitched the Tigers out of last year's pennant-40-year-old Doc Cramer broke up the party with a game-winning triple. Score: Detroit 7, Washington 4. In the nightcap, Rudy York shrugged off the menace of high-walled Griffith Stadium (the Senators have hit only one homer there all year) by belting his 18th. That helped Dizzy Trout (18-14) realize an iron-man promise to win five games in two weeks. Score: Detroit 7, Washington...
Thrills were a dime a dozen last Tuesday at the Indoor Athletic Building, as Company C and Standish wound up the intramural basketball season by splitting a double bill, with the civilians copping the all-important nightcap playoff...
...final and crucial battle. This time it was Standish's turn to take the lead, which they did after a rapid exchange of baskets at the start. And as Hull had dominated the play in the first game, so Dick Firth put the civilians out in front in the nightcap. Play remained rough throughout the game (25 fouls, of which 4 were technicals, were called) as tension and tiredness combined to keep tempers at a high pitch...
Prior to this encounter the soldiers had been riding along on the crest of a seven-game winning streak which was rudely interrupted by Phil Weeks sixth inning three-run homer. Tom Axon was the winning pitcher. Leverett also took the nightcap...
...continent. Blonde Miss Carroll, who can act when she has to, makes a good thing out of a role which could have been adequately routine. Percy the penguin wins the pantomime honors hands down. His best scene: waddling down a Pullman aisle in his striped pajamas and matching nightcap, hot after a herring...