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...ninth inning at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, the St. Louis Cardinals were leading the Dodgers, 2-to-0. The Cards' Ron Northey smacked a long drive to center field. As Northey sprinted for third base, Field Umpire John Edward ("Beans") Reardon waved his arm in a circle over his head to indicate an automatic home run and (according to Northey) emphasized his point by shouting: "What are you running for? It's a home run." Plump Ron Northey gratefully slowed to a dogtrot...
Durocher knows umpires-and they know him. Beans Reardon deflates Leo by saying, "Stop putting on your act, little boy." The most awe-inspiring of umpires is large, red-faced George Magerkurth, who swells up with majestic rage when his dignity is pricked. Leo's arguments with him are Brooklyn legend. "The Mage," says Leo fondly, "is one of the best umpires in baseball." It is a slow season when The Lip gets less than five notices from National League headquarters. Sample: "For prolonged argument, delaying the game, use of violent, profane language, you are fined...
...fourth straight Vezina Trophy (for the goalie who averages the least goals per game). Last year he blocked all but 104 shots in 40 games. In front of Durnan is Les Canadiens' "bachelor defense"-rocklike Emile ("Butch") Bouchard, 26, an offseason beekeeper, and fiery Irishman Kenny Reardon, 25. Bachelor Bouchard plans to marry at season's end. Bachelor Reardon is the confessed favorite player of figure-skating champion Barbara Ann Scott...
...polls was regarded by the audience as the deciding factor in the slim margin of victory of Yale. Judges for the home debate, which was broadcast over the Crimson Network, included Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, Charles R. Cherington '35, faculty instructor in Government, and Paul C. Reardon '32, of the Boston...
Judges for the debate, which is open to everyone, will include Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, Charles R. Cherington '35, faculty instructor in Government, and Paul C. Reardon '32, of the Boston law firm of Hausserman, Davison, and Shattuck...