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CHICAGO baseball fans, who have hoped in vain for an American League pennant since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, have learned to endure an annual disappointment: watching the White Sox get off to a fast start, then fall in a "June Swoon." This year the Sox raced into June as if they really mean to run all the way. One big difference is a scrappy, tobacco-chewing little second baseman named Jacob Nelson Fox. See SPORT, Nellie's Needle...
...third left Shortstop Roy McMillan free to team up with Second Baseman Johnny Temple in one of the best double-play combinations in baseball. The Redlegs, who started the season slowly, are all playing their own game by now, at week's end were on top in the pennant race thanks to a twelve-game winning streak. "Some players," said modest Manager Tebbetts as he tried to disclaim credit for such crowd-pleasing play, "have to be on a winning club to do their best." Winning certainly seemed to suit ex-Castoff Don Hoak...
Connie Johnson hurled a dazzling two-hitter as the pennant-bound Baltimore Orioles trampled the Athletics 2 to 0 last night...
...fighting Washington Senators continued their move for the American League pennant last night as Ted Abernathy baffled the Red Sox with a four-hitter to lead Cookie Lavagetto's men to a 5-3 victory at Fenway Park. Pesky Herb Plews with three blows led the attack for the visitors, while Boston's mighty Ted Williams went hitless, as did local star James W. B. Benkard...
...hastened to assure him that there were at least 136 more games to go, and that if he would predict how the rest of the pennant race would go, we could assure him that our readers would not hold him culpable for the missing...