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...Outfield. Duff men, fighting the Grundy forces in what has now become the longest session of the legislature in 99 years, appealed for help. But Duff, with dogged consistency, insisted that he had never tolerated meddling when he was governor and he would not try it now. Duff men at Harrisburg wondered whether there really was much that Jim Duff could do. Said a G.O.P. politico sadly: "Jim Duff, hell, he's just a junior Senator from Pennsylvania down in Washington. He's off in deep left-field and he's got the sun in his eyes...
...Duff cannot afford to stay in the outfield for long. As eastern manager of the Eisenhower-for-President forces, he counts on controlling Pennsylvania's big, 67-man delegation to the Republican convention. By instinct and inclination, Grundyites prefer Taft. With Governor Fine running the state government and playing ball with Grundy, Jim Duff is in danger of finding himself a manager with only half a team...
Some 50,000 fans sat on the edge of their seats for the first game, which the Red Sox finally won, after staving off Chicago's two-run rally in the ninth inning. Clyde Vollmer, the least celebrated member of Boston's all-star outfield, won the game with a seventh-inning home run. Score: 3-2. The second game was even tighter. At the end of nine innings the score was 4-4. Not until the 17th inning, the longest night game in American League history, did the Red Sox win, 5-4. The man who drove...
...sliced a single into very short left field and Kearns juggled the ball just long enough for Wise to score from second. Then Ed Foynes hit deep to the second baseman, and, by the time the Princeton infield had finished throwing that one around, the ball was in the outfield and Cavanaugh was home...
Vinnie Morton almost broke the tie in the fifth when he sent a long ball toward the outfield, but it was caught for the third out just short of the fence. Morton had been consistent all afternoon, batting out two singles early in the game...