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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1944
Page
4
Louis Oct 4 Edward Wray a 71 year old sports editor of the St Louis Post Dispatch is the sole baseball writer in the preseason Associated Press poll to back both the Cardinals and Browns to win their leagues pennants in the coming season.
Sportswriters split on the Browns pennant chances with many expecting the team to win the World Series. A veteran analyst called the Browns a red hot squad versus a cold rival predicting four wins in six games. The Associated Press coverage reflected favor toward Cleveland though opinions varied among writers.
The opening game of the World Series features the St Louis Browns and the St Louis Cardinals with Morton Cooper pitching for the Cardinals and Denny Galehouse for the Browns. Cards favored to win game one and the series. weather cool with no rain. First six games to be played on consecutive days if needed, with a day off between games six and seven. Mural Broadcasting System to carry the games.
Hagerstown High, rain and mud push indoors as Coach Eddie Semler runs two backs through plays and linemen drill. Martinsburg coach Cobourne reports his team in good shape to field the same lineup, with Ward backfielders ready for action. Final scrimmage may come today pending weather, focus remains on pass defense against Flick and Thornburg.
Stan Benjamin hit a jackpot homer in the fifth and another shot off Howard Moss to power the Baltimore Orioles past Newark Bears 5-3, tying the International League final series at three games each before 4,070 fans. Embree earned the win with nine strikeouts, while Newark’s Moss homered for his fourth of the series.
A weathered note promotes changing oil at Continental Oil Co. stations with Conoco motor oil to protect engines in the season of low temperatures.
Roger Harding, 190-pound California center from Walnut Creek, selected as top lineman of the week in the first AP poll. Wisconsin freshman Nick Collins ranked second. other standouts include Joe Dyer of Southern Methodist and John Cooke of Texas Christian.
Paul Wilson, 148, of Dimmore Pa, filled in as a substitute in a boxing card and defeated Julius Dear, 157, New York, in the second round of a preliminary bout. He then drew four rounds with Mickey Lelletiere, 148, Hazleton, after another substitute appearance. A freight car averages 30 years in service before removal due to a “hat box.”
Weatherman Harry Wahlgren skips forecast for today's opener and leaves it to his assistant. Eight Cardinals players enter the classic for the first time among 22 eligible, with Pepper Martin bringing fourth season experience. Denny Galehouse faces Mort Cooper in the matchup as Luke Sewell works to rally his club after a dress rehearsal. Over 400 writers and photographers are credentialed to cover the event.
Furnished quotations from Kline Bros. Benevolando show local prices paid to producers for farm goods. Items include butter 400 per pound, onions 2 per bushel, fowl and poultry at OPA ceiling prices, lard per hundredweight, and cabbage onions and tomatoes with varied per unit costs. The list notes ceiling prices for Guinea fowl and heavy hens and references the Library of Congress note on American history material.
Bethlehem reports Lehigh University football squad features young freshmen but no babies. A local laundry sent a truckload of diapers to dressing rooms instead of towels, highlighting a humorous mix up in equipment handling.
Chicago reports the National Safety Congress labeled hunting very safe after C S Bedell of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute cites 1942 insurance data showing under one percent of accident claims from hunting. The article also notes Blaise Pascal invented the adding machine in 1642.
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