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Both these runners kicked up dust at second base last week, and both had a rough time of it as these pictures show. At Chicago's Wrigley Field (left), Cincinnati's Ray Lammano ran into the Cubs' Don Johnson and practically carried him on his back, thereby keeping Johnson from completing a double play. At Yankee Stadium (right), Hal Wagner of the Boston Red Sox made it. Hit on the head with a baseball, he was knocked out temporarily, and but for Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto's frantic leap might have been spiked...
...Louis farm system, not so dried up as some said, had grown a skinny, 20-year-old shortstop named Bernie Creger, for whom the Chicago Cubs would give a half-interest in Wrigley Field. Yet Creger had little chance to break into the Cardinals' crack lineup: to do that he would have to beat Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion out of his job. At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the up-&-coming Boston Braves were proud of bespectacled Earl Torgeson, who swings something like Ted Williams...
...something else. But since he ended up in England, where bicycle manufacture is a big industry, he decided to corner a small market on importation of now scarce parts. He explains the plethora of three-speed shifts and other hard to get gadgets by his easy distribution of Wrigley's spearmint gum to the stenographers of large British firms. "That put me way up on the list for post-war supply," he declared...
...youth, Fred Weiszmann had played football (soccer) in his native Hungary, where, as in most foreign countries, it rated tops in popularity. Six months ago he decided to make Americans soccer-conscious. He raked together $75,000,* organized the Chicago Maroons, wangled playing rights in big-time Wrigley Field, formed a streamlined league which would travel by air. In Chicago last week U.S. soccer moguls promptly approved an April opening for his loop. If U.S. soccer needed a live-wire promoter, he had arrived...
...dapper Sportsman Fred Weiszmann intended to play it safe. Until he learned whether the hitherto apathetic U.S. public would take to soccer, he would stay on as assistant headwaiter at Chicago's popular Wrigley Building restaurant...