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Spence finally weakened and McCarthy came to New York. He wrote a sports column, predicting at one point that the Dodgers would win the pennant, but was soon made assistant managing editor under 23-year old Sgt. Bill Richardson of Raleigh, N.C., who now heads the London bureau. When Richardson was shipped over in September, McCarthy stepped into his shoes...
Brooklyn had its wind knocked out last week. The Dodgers lost the National League pennant to the smashing St. Louis Cardinals on the last day of the season. But the big loss was the Big Wind: the Dodger president, Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail. Lieut. Colonel MacPhail, 52, reports next week to the Army, hopeful that his fighting experience (World War I and innumerable bar, hotel-lobby, and press-gallery fisticuffs) will get him combat duty...
...York's smooth-striding Yankees: the American League pennant, for the sixth time in seven years; after leading the league since the first week...
Just a year ago last week the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn's Dodgers had faced one another in a do-or-die showdown for the National League pennant. And Brooklyn's big Righthander Whit Wyatt had pitched the Dodgers to a 1-to-0 shutout against the Cards' big Righthander Mort Cooper...
...Cards won 20 of the last 23 games of the season to clinch the pennant. In 1934 they clinched it with 20 out of the last 25. This year the Cards have won 29 of their last 34 games...