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So the 1945 edition of the Vforld Series is now history. The Detroit Tigers are once more the champions in baseballdom* Perhaps everyone who was at all interested is already aware of this fact since the results of the games were broadcast through out the world. It is highly entertaining, to say the least, to read the various com ments made by writers in reference to this series. It was a series in which nev/ re cords were made or old records tied. The series set a new record in the amount of money taken in. This was well over a million and a half dollars. Of coursc, the fact that seven games wore played had a lot to do with the amount of cash taken in. Another record-breaker was the time required to play one of the games, the sixth. This game rocked along for three hours and t’vventy-eight minutes. The final score in this parti cular game was eight to seven in favor of the Chicago Cubs, One of the bright lights in the series, in which the playing as a whole was not up to par, was the pitching of Claude Passeau of Chicago, In regard to this game one scribe wrote as follows; ”AgaiB- st Passeau’s sinkers and sliders, nary a Tiger reached second base. For the first time in 39 years, the V/orld Series had a one-hitter« ” Pitching had a great deaJ. to do, as is usually the case, with the outcome of this year’s World Series, The manager of the Detroit Tigers had assembled a collection of pitching T]MT-Trout, Newhouser and Trucks, So fine hurling plus some heavy stickwork by Hank Greenberg helped to swing the title Detrcitward, As was stated above the playing as a whole did not seem to be up to par. But as one writer stated, many of the players were fugitives from the minor leagues, ”They made bush-leaguemistakes in the field (in a single gcjiie three pop flies were allowed to fall as safe hits), swooned in the face of first-rato pitching, and did nothing more invigorating tnan tilt their eyebrows at umpires’ decisions, "It was strictly a second«rrate show”. This is nearly the middle of October and the football season is well under v/ay. So we should like to give those in service a little football news. In order to avoid trying to cover too much territory we shall try to write briefly concerning a few of the games in which you might be interested and which wore played on Saturday, October’ lA-th, Naturally we are ^chiefly interested in v;hat the teams from North Carolina are doing. The big game in the Old North State for October lAth was the Duke-Wake Forest t 4 contest. Both of these teams had suffered set-backs the v/eek before, Duke had been decisively defeated by a powerful Navy team, while V/ake Forest went dovm before the West Point Cadets by the lop-sided score of- to 0, Duke was the pro-gam!e favorite in the tussle between thel^cthodists and the Baptists, But it was expected that Wake Forest would put up a game fight. The contest got under way with Wake kicking to the Duke’s 32 yard line. On the first play after the kick-off Duke’s George Clark took the ball and lit out for the pearly gates. He ran 66 yards to hit pay-dirt for the first score of the game before.the spectators had settled comfortably in their scats, Duke was leading by the score of 6 to 0, After the Duke score the Deacons forthwith proceeded to get into the ball game. They returned the kick-off to their own yard line. Then began a drive which cul minated in a V/alce Forest score. The Deacons, too, failed in the try for the extra (Continued on next page)
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