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...football-wonders blew down Notre Dame, 48-0. Since second-and third-stringers sufficed for nearly half the game, Army's touchdown twins, Glenn ("Speedster") Davis and Felix ("Blockbuster") Blan-'chard, were still in the market for a good stiff workout. Last week's Scoreboard indicated that they might get one, or even two, in their upcoming games with Pennsylvania and Navy. Penn pricked Columbia's little bubble (32-7) and Navy finally lived up to pre-season raves by walloping Michigan (33-7). Some experts, squinting hard, thought they saw trouble ahead for the super...
...place Washington Senators an hour early. The opposing pitcher, 34-year-old Knuckleballer Dutch Leonard hadn't beaten the Tigers in three years. By the time the Browns went to work against the third-place New York Yankees-before an alltime record home crowd of 37,815-the Scoreboard showed Detroit trailing by three runs. By the time Chet Laabs had pumped the first Brownie homer of the day (he hit another the next inning) into Sportsman's Park's left-field bleachers, Detroit had lost, 4-to-1. A better team than the Browns might have...
...Hollywood last week Democrat John M. Costello, no friend of union labor but an able legislator, went down to defeat in the California primaries. He was the third member of the Dies Committee to be eliminated in four weeks. Crowed a California C.I.O. newspaper: "The Dies Committee scoreboard today read: 3 down...
Adams' third victory of the week came at the expense of Dudley last Wednesday with the scoreboard reading 9 to 2. Mort Mendselsohn was the winning pitcher in this lop-sided baseball contest...
...Philly players, Owner Cox took pains to build up the morale of the Philly fans. He bought newspaper space for heart-to-heart talks with them, bought radio time for the broadcasting of team gossip. During games he has the current batting averages of each player posted on the Scoreboard. For future customers, he has started the publication of a sports weekly called The Scoreboard, to be distributed free (through relatives and friends) to members of the armed forces...