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...strictly against the rules to feed a race horse little white pills to give it more pep. In baseball, not so. Last spring Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals began dosing his players with vitamin B1 pills. Last week, as the baseball season neared its eighth week, the hopped-up Redbirds were going lickety-split in the National League pennant race...
...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...
...Cardinal managers since 1925 not all fired, however; Rogers Hornsby, 1925-26; Bob O'Farrell 1927; Bill McKenchnie, 1928-29; Bill Southworth, part of 1929; Gabby Street, 1930-33; Frankie Frisch, 1933-38; Ray Blades, 1939-40; Billy Southworth...
...Possible reason: Cardinal Manager Ray Blades, who was supplanted last fortnight by 47-year-old Billy Southworth. In 39 games this season, bench-jittery Blades used 107 pitchers, permitted only six to finish the games they started...
...following the rules of the IGGA (Intercollegiate Goldfish Gulping Association)," Clark said. The record has kept on soaring sky-high, as many a lad has made his fame and fortune. At present Joseph Deliberate is accredited (unofficially) with bringing the title to Clark University by downing $9, eclipsing Gordon Southworth's 67 for Middlesex College...