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...always turn up with good pitching. They still have 34-year-old Pitcher Bucky Walters and the league's top first baseman, Frank McCormick. The four Eastern clubs, which formed a solid second-division block in 1944, are filled with long ifs and forlorn buts. If Manager Mel Ott's aging legs hold out, if they get one pitcher to help 21-game winner Bill Voiselle, the New York Giants might climb upstairs. The Philadelphia Phils must struggle along without their one power-hitter, Ron Northey; the Boston Braves can only hope that some of their 21 rookies...
...player: Mel Ott, the New York Giants' right-fielding manager, scored his 1,741st big league run on June 21, breaking the great Honus Wagner's alltime record, hung up in 1917. Ott also holds National League records in home runs (483), runs batted in (1,749), extra base hits (1,013). At a time when most veterans begin to relax, 35-year-old Ott was last week leading both leagues in home runs for the season...
Into Danger. Flying hospital personnel, including doctors, enlisted men and nurses are trained at Bowman Field, Ky. But some nurses have made successful flights before going to school to learn how. Nurse Elsie S. Ott got the Air Medal for her pioneering trip from India to the U.S. (her first time in the air) bringing five seriously ill patients. She went to school afterwards...
...Lakewood, N. J. Giants Manager Mel Ott perked up when he heard that Selective Service doctors were hesitating about inducting First Baseman Johnny Mize. Observing that Mize had always bruised easily, Otto told newsmen: "He has a form of hemophilia-you know, excessive bleeding." But Mize passed, was sent to the Navy...
...peace feelers, went Hans Thomsen, the steady, approachable, onetime Charge d'Affaires in Washington. To Spain, whose Mediterranean coastline confronts the Allies in North Africa, went Hans Adolf von Moltke, German Ambassador to Poland when that country was invaded. To Japan, replacing the tried & trusted militarist General Eugen Ott, went an economist, young Heinrich Stahmer...