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...years with the Philadelphia Athletics. But he gave up too soon on Al Benton. Ten years ago he shunted the big, happy-go-lucky pitcher off to the minors. In exile, 6-ft.-4 Al worked for Williamsport, Albany, Chattanooga, Memphis, Toledo. Gradually, he cured a sore arm and came up again, this time with the Detroit Tigers. As their grade-A relief pitcher, he averaged over 150 innings a season, and saved many a game, from 1939 through...
...opened on a low note by getting picked off third base with the ancient hidden-ball trick. Joe Cronin of the Red Sox broke his ankle sliding into second. Leo Durocher of Brooklyn, who had loudly threatened to play second base for the first 15 games, gave up with sore shins after a game and a half (he was still juggling his batting order right & left-five times in five days...
...Bavarian hills last week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army hit a weak spot and found a German sore spot. His loth Armored Division carved a startling 30-mile breakthrough to within 45 miles of the upper waters of the Danube. This was a delicate area for the Nazis-the Napoleonic route of invasion toward Vienna. Over it Patch's men might strike through to split Germany...
Some divisions of the Seventh found sore spots of their own. At Aschaffenburg, cleaning up behind a U.S. Third Army thrust, the 45th Infantry suffered heavy casualties in a week-long battle...
...again Gunder ("The Wunder") Hägg finally arrived in the U.S. last week. He did not swim over, as Manhattan newsmen had been suggesting he must be doing, during their month-long vigil at the docks; the speedy Swede came on a slow freighter, and he had sore feet from training-trots he made on the boat's steel decks...