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Emerson's fine effort took most of the shine from the food relief hob turned in by the Crimson's own Rufe Webb. Rushed in to replace starter John Arnold in the very first inning, the little lefthander found the bases full, one run in and only...
...Webb yielded a single to Bob Wahlers which knocked in a second tally, but a fine throw from left fielder Ben Akillian to Captain Charlie Walsh cut down another run at the plate and enabled Webb to extricate himself...
From then on-at least until the seventh--Webb gave up just three hits (one to Wahlers, who collected three altogether). He was in trouble only once, in the sixth, when woody Grumney and Tony Aguiar singled consecutively with two out. But Webb promptly struck olt his hurling rival--Dick Beresford--on three straight pitches...
That denouement came with sickening suddenness. Two walks sandwiched an infield hit to load the bases, and an infield error then scored the run which boat Webb. A quick recovery and fine throw by first baseman Russ Johnson out down another run at the plate, but then Wahlers--a more J.V. at the start of the year--touched Crimson reliever Bob ward for a line double to knock in the insurance tally. Coach Stuffy Melanins had in insert his fourth pit other of the day--pat Groper--before the inning could be ended...
...Wild Heart (Powell-Pressburger; RKO Radio), a picturization of Mary Webb's 1917 novel, Gone to Earth, lets passion spin the plot in turn-of-the-century England. Jennifer Jones is a simple child of nature who likes to cuddle up with her pet fox. Just when she has settled down to a calm marriage with a parson (Cyril Cusack), along comes Squire David Farrar, a virile type, who whisks her off to his outsize estate. But Farrar has a crude habit of fox hunting, so Jennifer soon cools toward him. The ending is drenched in predictable melodramatics...