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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett The World Series is over. I said six games, but it went lev-en. lev-en. It started out like a walk a- j way for the Yankees, but turned j into a tree for all battle right down to the last out. It broke all records for attendance, and cash receipts, and all records for the number of players used by each team. Managers Shotten and Harris gambled as no other managers man-agers ever have in a world series. ser-ies. "Big Bill" Bevens had a no hitter in his grasp only to see his own wildness and a pinch hit double by Cappie Tavagatto lose not only the no hitter but the ga meas well. It saw the first negro ball players, in Robertson and Bankhead. It saw one pitcher pitch-er take part in six of the seven j games, Hugo Casey of the Bums. To top it all off as the Yankees were celebrating their victory in j the club house, the fabulous Larry Lar-ry McPhail, announced his .retirement .re-tirement as president of the Yankees. Other things that have happened hap-pened in this, baseball's greatest i year, Billie Hermcns' failure as a manager of the Pittsburg club. Another story on that club that never broke into print was the resentment caused by Hank Greenberg's big salary among the players. It is reported that he and Pitcher Bagby came to blows in their own club house, j Joe Cronin, going to the front ; office of the Boston Red Sox and the one and only Joe McCarthy, j coming in as manager. Cronin, in the opinion of a good many baseball men, couldn't handle pitchers. I think aside from the great contract he got, revenge on McPhail and the Yankees was partly responsible for McCarthy coming out of retirement. Ossie Bludge was let out as manager of the Washington club and put in charge of their farm clubs. No one as yet, appointed to take his place. Lou Boudreau is having trouble troub-le getting the kind of contract he wants at Cleveland. Bill Veeck says he will trade anyone on the club if it will help win the pennant. pen-nant. Lou might end up with the St. Louis Browns. Talked with Kent Peterson, the Salt Lake boy who is with Cincinnati. Kent tells me the Reds will be tough next year, with several young pitchers to j help Blackwell, among them, one j Kent Peterson. Bud Romers, the great young left bander from Brigham City, broke his leg in football this fall. Bud's father tells me he hasn't made any commitments as yet. Provo finally won the Industrial Indus-trial league playoff in the longest long-est season in the league's history. his-tory. They beat Brigham City 7 to 6 in 10 innings Wednesday night to wind it up. 3 games to 1. The Timps great left hander, Wanaker did a Huge Casey, winning win-ning all three games. Yes, it has been a great year for baseball and may next year be even bigger. See you next week. AL n |