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...Philadelphia Phillies staggered to the National League pennant by winning two of their last ten ball games. Such a percentage will not deprive the New York Yankees of their second consecutive World Championship in the World Series which opens this afternoon in Shibe Park...
When the rattle of base hits had subsided and the debating societies finally departed from the mound, the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics dragged wearily off to Shibe Park's dressing rooms. In the nine-inning game, nine pitchers had given up 21 walks, 34 hits had ripped across the field; 36 runners had crossed the plate-a new American League record...
Dodger Day. Exactly 36 minutes later in Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the Dodgers hauled in the National League pennant with a 9-7 ten-inning victory over the Phillies. In the final week, they had gone to the top of the league (after six weeks in second place) by winning a crashing doubleheader in the rain over the Boston Braves (9-2 and 8-0). But they had less reason to thank their own bats than the batty stretch-run performance of the Cardinals...
...Connie Mack has a rookie pitcher who looks even better. He is Alex Kellner, 24, a Navy vet whose father once pitched a no-hitter for Tucson in the Arizona-Texas League and whose grandfather once fought John L. Sullivan in a New Orleans exhibition. Last week at Shibe Park, exploiting his breaking stuff and a fast ball that "takes off," Southpaw Kellner won No. 10 by limiting the White Sox to five hits. With a 10-3 record, he is well on his way to becoming a 20-game winner his first year...
Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...