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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
2
A scrambled report highlights St Louis Browns beating Philadelphia A’s 8-4, Pat Seery contributing for Cleveland in a three way tight race. Brooklyn Reds and Yankees show strong form as Boston, Chicago and Pittsburgh post wins, while rain-plagued New York-Chicago games are postponed. many players and stats are mentioned in a cluttered, incomplete wire-style summary.
The AP report lists Mich Jimmy Reyes beating Eddie Taylor in Detroit, while Martin Doyle from Birmingham outpoints Otto Schmidt, and Holman Williams of Chicago defeats Jack Chase in Denver, with other details truncated.
Journalist Hugh Fullerton Jr. surveys sports notes from May Day chatter across boxing and baseball. Walter Denys predicts future heavyweight champs come from active fighters like Baksi or Schott, while Tomás Della Cruz, Ted Collins and Mike Guerra loom in baseball signals. References to Herschel coastlines and Polo star Winston Guest frame a mosaic of sports gossip and impending moves across clubs and venues.
The Associated Press reports yesterday's NL scores including Pittsburgh 8 Boston 1 and Chicago 2 Philadelphia 0 with Cincinnati and New York postponed by rain and St. Louis at Brooklyn also rained out. Tomorrow's games feature Cincinnati at New York and St. Louis at Brooklyn.
Tomorrow's games feature New York at Chicago and Boston at St. Louis among four matchups. Philadelphia faces Detroit while Washington meets Cleveland tonight, with schedule times noted for each venue.
Frankie Hayes belted a bases loaded homer for Philadelphia in an 8 4 win over Detroit, his second grand slam of the season. Dutch Leonard beat Cleveland, Rip Sewell and the Pirates held Boston to six safeties, and St Louis won as well. The page also notes the Grand River rock formation near Elora Ontario, named Tooth of Time.
After a slow start 34 players have filled second base for 16 Major League clubs. Only two holdovers from opening day remained in the role. Don Doerr and six others started at second and played every game. Teams shuffled infielders amid injuries and experiments as managers sought steady production at the keystone.
When the Maritime Commission was established in 1936, there were only ten shipyards in the United States capable of constructing ocean going vessels four hundred feet long.
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