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...well as nearly 400,000 soft-coal diggers of his United Mine Workers-had some basis in fact. As a result of overproduction, diminishing demands and skidding prices, the soft-coal mines were indeed facing the perilous possibility of a cutthroat price war. If it came to the pinch, a lot of little companies might be destroyed and a lot of John's miners would be out of jobs...
...Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with sickly little Albert...
...Yardlings made it 5 to 5 in the eighth, as shortstop Henry Young singled Charlie Cabet, pinch hitting, pepped to second baseman McHugh who dropped the ball and then erased Young at second. Switzer get an infield safety, and Hill Goodman, running for Spider Webb who had run for Cabet, fallied on a wild pitch...
Ernie Mannino was intentionally walked, pinch-hitter Steve Howe forced Moffie at the plate, and then McInnis called on Foynes to bat for Godin...
Coach Dolph Samborski inserted two pinch batters in the last of the ninth in a desperation attempt to regain a few squandered runs. Harris failed to reach base, but Connolly got on on a fielder's choice, scoring the third Crimson...