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...Eliot's pennant winning Mastodons allied twice in the second quarter and shut out Yale's league-leading Saybrook College, 8 to 0. The men in Blue battled evenly throughout the game and held the ball most of the second half, but the Crimson visitors capitalized on fumbles and intercepted passes to halt all scoring advances...
Have a hunch there may yet be material for my weekly toast, commenting to himself, when the young lady wondered if Harvard had ever won the pennant. Vag, you talk yourself into the damnedest things, he said, almost aloud, and then, most audibly, he was singing "with Crimson in triumph flashing" and feeling quite at home...
...ever known. A year after he took over as general manager of the wobbly Cincinnati Reds in 1933, he introduced night baseball to the majors, began luring droves of fans through the turnstiles with fireworks and hoopla. Moving east to Brooklyn, he masterminded the mortgaged Dodgers into their first pennant in 20 years, drew crowds of over a million four years...
...problem. Rowdy Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, whose suspension for a year from baseball was partly brought on by Larry MacPhail (TIME. April 21), had served his sentence. Boss Rickey had to choose between him and 62-year-old Burt Shotton, who had stepped into his place and won a pennant without kicking dust on a single umpire. Rickey had long conferences with both last week, and said nothing...
...good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page, a relief pitcher with an inferiority complex who did more than any player-aside from DiMaggio-to bring the Yankees their 14th pennant in 27 years...