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...Brooklyn Dodgers and 13 ahead of the World Champion Cincinnati Reds, the Cardinals had set the league's high winning streak, eleven games in a row. They led the league in batting (.290), fielding (.981). They looked so slick that Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle changed his pre-season odds, made the Cards favorites to win the National League pennant this year...
...pre-season prognostications, experts figured the Cardinals would finish third, as they did last year. The team relied on a mighty slugger named Slaughter and two other outfielders who hit over .300. They had First Baseman Johnny Mize, No. 1 home-run hitter of 1940. But their pitching was questionable, their fielding unreliable. To replace Outfielder Joe Medwick, Pitcher Curt Davis and Catcher Mickey Owen, three Old Reliables recently sold to the rival Brooklyn Dodgers, Manager Southworth had brought up a batch of green rookies from the Cardinals' far-flung farms...
...their hometown opener at Yankee Stadium, with Mayor LaGuardia pitching the first ball, the Yankees looked like bushers instead of co-favorites (with the Cleveland Indians) to win the American League pennant this year. Against Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, a 100-to-1 shot in pre-season betting, they were drubbed...
...this pre-season point, the quality of the squad, although it is constantly improving, is still behind that of last year's at a similar time. Only fifteen of Harvard's forty points in last season's Yale flasco have returned. It appears that it will be a weak season and Mikkola's strong interest in his Freshman runners may indicate a search for richer pastures for the future...
Hampered by lack of good pre-season practice and crippled by injuries, Coach Dick Snibbe's Varsity lacrosse team lost its three games to Penn, Maryland, and Navy respectively on its recent trip to the south which it regularly makes every spring vacation...