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Chicago cannot hope to win the pennant unless its pitching holds up; and Richards made Hal Newhouser a winner when Paul was the Detroit catcher. Joe Dobson has won four without losing. Randy Gumpert is 3-1, Ken Holcombe 4-2, Billy Pierce 7-2, Howie Judson 2-0. If they stay hot, so do the White Sox. Whatever happens, Richards' hustling, aggressive club seems to have bulled its way into the first division for good...
...Avila is becoming an excellent second baseman. The only weaknesses are at short and left, where Ray Boone and the usually extremely reliable Dale Mitchell have started very badly. Only six games behind Chicago and four behind New York, the Indians still have an excellent chance at the pennant...
Stengel won the game by disobeying orders -but he might just as well have lost it by his action . . . The reason McGraw was so incensed was that although that game was important, even more important was the winning of the pennant . . . And no manager can win if he cannot depend upon his players carrying out the orders given them...
Taciturn Manager Richards, a throwback to the rough-tough John McGraw school of managing, may have no pennant winner this season, but he has coaxed and goaded a team which finished sixth last year into a first-division frame of mind. By this week the free-wheeling White Sox, leading the league in stolen bases (25 over runner-up New York with 15), had clawed and scrambled their way into second place in the standings (one game behind the world champion Yankees), and had stretched their winning streak to eleven...
...pushing of his other players. Richards' hustling White Sox, a tooth & nail team, is already surefire at the gate (home attendance is up 29%). For White Sox fans, with only six first-division teams in 30 years, it's high time. Chicago's last American League pennant winner: the infamous Black...