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...only to gravediggers but to practically every one of Cincinnati's 450,000 citizens. Businessmen carried radios to their offices, golfers had caddies tote portables along with their clubs. For the Cincinnati Reds ("Our Boys" to baker and banker alike) were in the throes of their first pennant in 20 years and, like an expectant father, the whole town stood nervously by. At Crosley Field, in what oldtime ballplayers used to call a "crucial serious," Our Boys were playing the Cardinals-the swaggering, slugging Gas House Gang from St. Louis...
...Reds' harrowing experiences the past month: a robust team with a fielding average of .975 (best in the league) and a batting average of .273 (third best), they were leading the National League by twelve games on August i and looked like a cinch to win the pennant; but last week, mind you, they were struggling to defend a precarious 2½-game lead against the Cardinals, who had unfeelingly slugged their way to 20 victories in their last 24 games. Manager Bill McKechnie had lost 23 pounds in six weeks...
...Boys had split a double-header with the Cards. The second day, beloved Bucky Walters, the renovated third-baseman who had pitched 27 victories for Cincinnati this year, suffered a 4-to-o shutout. Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games, had failed to score a run in 24 innings; their...
Frankly, the National League has very little sense. They would do well to quit staging photographic finishes every year that leave the pennant winners capable of enjoying nothing but a good letdown in the World Series. Of course, the Yankees would win anyway but it might take six or seven games instead of four...
Bucky Walters, Cincinnati ace, pitched capably, but he was no match for the red-hot McGee. By winning, the Cards retained a fighting chance at the pennant if they can win the final game of the series tomorrow. They are still 2 1/2 games behind the Reds, and have only four games left to play...