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...those who took a second look at last week's baseball standings were likely to view old Bobo's exile as a kick, not down the river, but upstairs. While the mutinous Dodgers apparently weakened their chances of dethroning the World Champion Cardinals in the National League pennant race, the Browns were one of four American League clubs still jockeying for position behind the pace-setting Yankees...
...Browns, nicknamed the Little Brownies because they are the only major-league club that has never won a pennant, have been a source of disappointment to two generations of St. Louis fans. Last week they looked more promising than they had at any time since the days of sizzling George Sisler (1915-22). Within the past fortnight the Army had rejected three of the Brownies' best players: slugging Shortstop Vernon Stephens, fancy-fielding First Baseman George McQuinn and first-string Catcher Frank Hayes...
Bean bag-meal pennant aboard ship...
...rich Eagles, like the rich Red Sox, have discovered that it takes more than a bank roll to win a pennant. The club that dominates Negro baseball is not Effa's Eagles but the Homestead (Pa.) Grays, originally founded for the diversion of Carnegie Steel employes and now owned by two Homestead Negroes: Cum (for Cumberland) Posey, a member of the Board of Education, and Sonnyman (for Rufus) Jackson, a juke-box impresario. So far this season, the Grays have won 18 league games, lost only four...
...explosive was announced to newsmen last week at the award of an Army & Navy "E"' pennant to a Du Pont plant at Perth Amboy, N.J., where hexamine is made. The other ingredients of the explosive are secret, but the Army described its properties: it explodes faster and more violently than TNT. Apparently it has been used so far only in bombs, for which it is ideal...