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^ Sports of the Times *I —a Poetry j* the Milwaukee Braves and still later the Atlanta5 Braves) on a winning streak that would clinchj the National League Pennant. Spalm was aI 15-ganie winner that year and Johnny SainJt finished 24-15.v Boston Post, “I will rotate my staff — Spahn| one day, Sain the next.”| Deeply moved, Hern repaired to liis office andI wrote as follows:| First we’ll use Spahn, then well use Sain.S Then an off clay, followed by rain,t Back will come Spzilui, followed by Sain| And followed, we hope, by two days of rain.51felgnd the ponies j? ^—............... By Arthur Daley I !j ^j © $m tfdil 8ftmt JJ NEW YORK — Now that Warren Spahti has jS been stuffed and mounted for display in Hie JJ bnccball pantheon in Cooperstown, the world of §t belles iettres, poesy division, is entitled to know S^ tlie authorship and original version of a rondeau \k Utat has been compared by some authorities J5 with Cray's Elegy Written in a Country *J Churchyard and by others with Shakespeare's !§ 24lh sonnet t* It has been, misquoted as often as the 5^ uuo uv-vn m k a u % L u ao uiicii H1U ^2 i n i u n c t j on agair.sl painting the lily and J| mistakenly a Unbilled to a variety of bards from Jh Lao-Tze lo Edgar A. Guest. It was composed on ^| ,Sept. 14, 1948, with the Boslrcin Braves (later Jt J5 “From now on, Billy S o u t h w o r t h, the JS manager, remarked la Gerry Hern of the Jl' _ -i__- T\__J. •«« I ■ « m 4. _ k 1
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Independent Record
Helena, Montana, US
Mon, Jan 29, 1973
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