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POPPIES

/ Twelve million pOppies worn III
! honor of the World War dead is the
: goal of the American Legion Aux
iliary in its 1887 memorial poppy
program" Mrs. Paul ID. LoVett'
State Poppy Chairman for the De-
partment of Delaware American
Legion Auxiliary. of Newark. has ar
nounced. "The pOppies will he dls-
tributed here and throughout the
country by volunteer workers from
the Auxiliary a few days before
Memorial Day.
"Disabled veterans in government
HOSPITALS and cOnvalescent WORK
rooms maintained by the Auxiliary
are now making the poppies the
Auxiliary women will distribute.
The work. which is going forward IN
approXimatcly 60 centers in AZ
states. is giving employment TO
many hundreds of veterans unahle
to do other work. Employment Is
restricted to disabled men RECEIVING
little or no government cOmpensa-
lion. with preference being given
ttose having dependent families.
while disabled World War veter-
ans in hospitals and workrooms III
many parts of the country have been
rakins these poppies this winter 10
be worn in honor Of their taIlen
comrades on Poppy Day next May
school children started to draw pos
ers showing the purpose of the pop
pies.
"All of the money received for the
,oppies will go into the work OF the
american Legion and Auxiliary lor
he welfare of disabled veterans ana
,eedy children of veterans. The mes
;age of the Auxiliary poppy Will be.
Honor the dead and aid the living
IN increased number of persons re-
.ponded last year and continue in
\ ease is expected this year.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-26
FISHERS DISTRICT
Near Greenwood

Mrs. Alva O'Bier was able to re-
turn to her duties as teacher at
Fishers School after being i'll the
past week. Miss Clark of Harrington
filled her vacancy during her ILL
ness.
George Morris was dinner guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. p. Morris ON Fri
day.
Mrs. John Lloyd. Mrs. Howard
Mrs. Jack Rust and Mrs. Joseph Will
hanson were fredericksburg visitors
on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. +. Collision enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs Harry Boyer of
Harrington, Miss Hazel Collision and
friend. Mr. Dempsey and sister of
Wilmington and Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E.
Russell and family on Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Morris and
daughter Frances, Mrs. Bessie Jones
and Mrs. Jack Rust were visitors in
Williston. Md. on Tuesday.
Roy Lloyd is much improved md
able to attend school after being
quite i'll the past week.
Miss Edith Clifton of Wilmington
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Williamson and family.
Mrs. Bessie Jones. Mrs. Florence
Todd. Mrs. Emma Alexander, Mrs. 7.
p. Morris and daughter Frances
were guests of Mrs. J. W. Rust on
Mr.. and Mrs. John Todd and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. $. f. Collision. Miss
Hazel Collision and James Dempsey
and sister were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Rust on Sunday evening.
Several of the folks from here
nave been attending the revival SER
ices at Prospect.
NJ. A. Robinson is not much i'm
proved at this writing.
Mrs. Thomas Smith and Mrs. ios-
,ph Williamson were guests Of Mr.,
md Mrs. John Lloyd on Sunday.
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PLANNING BOARD
PASSED BY HOUSE
ON TUESDAYLA
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resentative Frank II. Zebley, and
was passed by vote of "a to 6. The
six voting against the measure were:
Representatives Buckson. Sim
mons. Evans. Welch. Craig and
Ralph. DR.. II. V. Holloway is the
present holder of the office.
The House passed Representative
+. A. Burke's bill to prohibit the use
aware River within 1000 yards OF a
sewer outlet, when used for domes-
tic purposes. The bill was advocated
by Ivan CulbertsOn of Wilmington.
Representative F. r. Zebley opposed
the measure on the ground that 1T
was aimed at one water company.
Two Appropriations Approved
Rep. John p. Welsh's bill to ap-
propriate $4,000 year for two
years to the ST. Michaels Baby Hos
pital in Wilmington. was passed by
the House.
The House passed Rep. 7. NJ.
Adamsons bill to appropriate $751;
S22 to the Delaware Industrial
School for Girls.
The House also passed Rep. w. ID.
Craig's bill. set up as conserva-
ton measure. to enable farmers and
landowners to organize for the pro-
pagation of game birds.
BY a party vote, the House passed
Rep. S. G. Ralph's bill which would
change the boundaries of the fist
and second election districts of tue
Fifth Representative District of Sus~
sex County. 1t would place II fam
lilies now in the second district in
the first district.
Senate Passes House Bill
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating $500 year. for two
years, to each volunteer fire COM
pany in the state. There are mere
than 40 such companies.
Among bills reported favOrably in
the House were the following: To
amend the corporation law relative
to payment of dividends; TO abolish
the Board of Game and Fish Com
missiOners and create Il Board of
Game and Fish Conservation Com /
missiOners: to create a bureau of |
Legislative Reference; to provide for |
a five-member Levy Court for New /
Castle County and abolish the court
as now constituted; TO amend the
Workmen's Compensation Act by OK
tending the provisions to Occupa-
tional diseases incurred by EN-
ployes; to create an unemployment
compensation commission; to regu-
late the hours of barber shops in
Wilmington.
Rep. C. T.. Hastings had stricken
from the calendar his bill to require
ice cream tn be sold by weight.
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RAILROAD DILEMMA

Railroad employees are requesting
pay raises tOtaling $360,00O,O00 an
nually. The request has been pre-
sented in spite of the fact that net
income of Class l Railroads in 1886
amounted to only $150,000,000, and
of this amount the emergency
freight rates" recently terminated
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, accounted for $l20,000,0 200.
1t is evident that the railroads are
facing a serious dilemma.
AS the New York Times points
out: Average railroad wages are
already higher than those prevail
ing in 1929. A 10 per cent wage re-
duction was made in 1882, but wages
were fully restored to their old lev
els on April 1, 1885. Last November
the average hourly earning of all
wage-earners ON Class / railroads
was 69H cents. compared with an
average of 641a cents in 1929"
The privilege to organize and bar
gain collectively under a constitu-
tional form of government has en-
abled American labor to ask, and
receive, the highest wages and the
best working conditions in the
world today. And now 1t is only fit
ting that labor should share in the
fruits of returning prosperity. How
ever, abuse of a privilege eventually
destroys the privilege itself.
Labor should bear in mind that If
it forces the railroads to accept un-
reasonable demands, bankruptcy
will result. The way will then be
clear for government ownership and
operation, and it is almost imposs-
ible for labor or industry to bargain
successfully and in peaceful man
ner with a bureaucratic and mon
opolistic form of government-poli-
tics simply kills individual opportun-
iV.
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will feel the iron-hand of bureau
cratic oppression.
Attacks to socialize the railroads
are anjustified in principle and dan
gerous in practice. No industry has
shown a finer spirit of service. IL
is one of the largest employers in
the nation. and In the last IL months
alone it has increased its payroll by
100000 workers. Its wage rates and
working standards are unsurpassed.
Adoption by the government of
policy that would give the rails a
fair competitive break and assure
them that they will not be subjected
to unfriendly and expensive legis-
lation. would spur railroad Develop
ment and lead to the spending OF
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millions of dollars OF private capi-
tai. Most important of all, Il would
save the country from threats of
government ownership of the rail-
roads and that would be boon TO
every citizen and taxpayer.
Milford chronicle., 1937-03-26
STATE SCOUTS MAKING
PLANS TO ATTEND
WASHINGTON JAAMBOREE
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The national jamboree committee
has sent invitations TO the oreaniza-
tion in 73 different lands. A number
have already accepted including
Great Britain, who will send a del
egation of so scouts; Rumania will
send picked patrol OF eight scouts;
Poland will be represented by "a
scouts, and Canada and Mexico are
planning to send full troops of SO
scouts. Other countries planning to
send cOntingents are Venezuela,
Chile, Colombia, Bermuda, Denmark,
Switzerland. Hungary, Luxembourg,
India and Ceylon.
LammOt DUPONT. Jr., is chairman
of the council jamboree committee
now working on plans for the local
cOntingents.
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Teacher Smith. how MANY bones
have you in your body?
Pupil don't know, sir.
Teacher-But you were told yes
terday
Pupil--Yes, sir. But I had fish for
breakfast this morning.-El Paso
World News.
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ranks with the great ball
players, not alone the good ones.
Speed, terrific power, and an
arm. After all, those are the
three essentials Of a ball player"
OF course, Mr.. Mack had aspira
tons for next year?
For every year" he replied,
and a kindly light was in his
eyes. "If we can develop a
couple of pitchers. we will be all
right"
At this point young Ed Smith
passed in front of the box wherC
MI. Mack sat.
"A promising lad" said the
master of the Pachyderms. IF
we had five like him we
wouldn't have to worry. But
pitchers! Goodness gracious
me; where are the pitchers?
eff Griff had a few pitchers
he would not have to make q
change in his team. He could
stand pat on the club for two
years and be right in the fight
at all times"
1T studied Travis in the
double-header on Tuesday. He
is a fine young player. He might
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Sport Worlds
Passing Show

More than 10000 turned away
when rain postponed running Of
$4,000 Hambletonian Stakes at
Goshen, N. Y.
Alice Marble, Sylvia Henrotin.
of France and Jadwiga JedrZe.
jowska of Poland gained semi.
finals in women's singles of
Eastern grass court tennis cham
pionShipS.
Marion Miley, of Lexington,
KY, held lead over Patty Berg
of Indianapolis in third round
of women's Western golf derby.
Regal Lily ran to victory in
RICH Alabama stakes at Sara
toga.
Hopes of Boston Red Sox for
American League pennant VIC
tory crushed when they lost
double-header to leading New
York Yankees by 8 to S and 10
to 4 scores.
Other baseball results: Cleve-
land Indians 5 (first game), St.
Louis Browns 2 CfirSt game) {;
Cleveland Indians 7 Second
game), st. Louis Browns 2 (Sec-
ond game); Washington Sena'
tors S, Philadelphia Athletics
4; Chicago Cubs, S, Pittsburgh
Pirates /; st. Louis Cardinals
3, Cincinanti Reds 2.
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II we lose today, what man
may say
That we shall not win again."
How does Mr.. Mack retain his
genuine enthusiasm in baseball
after all these years?
Perhaps it is because I am
financially interested in the
success of the team" he said
in answer to that question.
Eyes, that is part of it. But
there is also the love of &C
compliShing something you at .
tempt.
You take these young fellows
year after year. You watch
them, sort out the good ones and
start developing them. You
have a task on your hands.
Some of the boys move right
along for a while and then stop
improving. Others start slowly,
and keep on until they become
stars. It usually requires five
years for a player to reach his
peak"
LANDS DIMAGGIO
How did Connie account for the
Fascist Flailer, Giuseppe DiMag'
gio?
Nov there is a great young
ball player" said Mr.. Mack.
"He does everything well. He
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LOCAL PAIR Win
IN STATE GOLF

Witty Cox, the professional, and
Maury Fitzgerald, the amateur, to-
day are receiving congratulations
on their pro-amateur victory at
Lutherville, Md, yesterday. when
they registered the lowest best
ball score of Middle Atlantic COM
petition, a So. to win the Maryland
State Golf Associations pro-ama-
teur tournament.
Cox came within a stroke of
equalling the course record with
his Sc, to take first money in the
individual professional sweep
stakes event.
The Cox-Fitzgerald combination
reached the turn in 80 and made
the homeward journey in 81, four
under par for the second nine.
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BALESTR| Seen
PRINTERS GOLF
TOURNEY CHAMP

BALTIMORE, Aug. IL. Joe
Balestri, stocky Washington book
binder golfer. today was firmly
established as the favorite to win
the 72-hole Allied Trade Division
of the fourteenth annual Union
Printers International Golf AS
sociation's tournement.
AS they teed off here today for
the final 10 holes, Balestri was a
single stroke in front of Ed Gable
man of Cincinnati, who in turn
was two strokes in the van of Bob
Peters of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Ed Merkle, also from Washington,
and defending champion, had So
hole total of 245, one stroke be-
hind Johnny Klein, of Lancaster,
Pa.
Bob Perry, another Washing,
tonian, was in a tie for fourth
place with Merkle and j. L. Mat.
thews, Miami, Fla, Southpaw.
Balestri's three rounds to date
have been 78, 81, 1888.
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WRESTLING RESULTS

At Los Angeles-Bronco Nagurski, 2S5,
Minneapolis, retained worlds champion
ship by throwing Vincent Lopez, Boise,
Idaho (straight falls); Nick Lutte. 200,
a wrestler. knocked out Pho Pico. 1876,
boxer, in second round of mixed con-
test; Dean Detton, 215, Salt Lake City,
many; Jumbo Kennedy, $50. San Fran
cisco, flattened Jules Strongbow, 200,
Vancouver; Gino Garibaldi 215. italy,
defeated Ignacio Martinez, 215, Mexico.
At Chicago-Jack Claybourne. Port
land, Ore. threw Jack Conley. Boston
go minutes).
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cause of his condition. In the
one round in which Dunbar ap-
peared, he varified the suspicious
of the doctor.
Every now and again the local
commission doctors turn down a
fighter who appears for weighing
in and medical examination, the
stiffeSt given by any boxing COM
mission the country over.
Fighters who operate almost
weekly in other jurisdictions are
turned down cold here.
Common Causes
washington DOESN'T want a
single ring fatality. Most of the
causes for thumbing down a con-
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zeal bouts when the referees re-
ceives considerable abuse from the
ringside for stopping a fight, but
the hecklerS know not whereof
they jibe.
Monday before last Referee
Denny Hughes got the bird" from
a few unthinking fans for stopping
Lou Gevinson in his valiant but
futile fight against joey Archi-
bald.
Gevinson pleaded with Hughes
to let him go on, but Hughes
knew, as every one should have
known, that Gevinson was going
along only on quits, if I may use
the best, but ugliest word in the
dictionary to describe the thing
that all men need most when a
cause seems to be hopelessly lost.
Gevinson's eyes were dull, his
face was expre5sionless and he
was fighting an unorganized, dis
concerted fight.
It should have been stopped
and WAS!
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TODAY's GAMES
HOME RUN HITTERS

DiMaggio. Yankees; Gehrig. Yankees;
Larry. Indians; Sullivan, Indians; Hart
nett, Cubs; Galan, Cubs; Kampouris,
Reds; McNair. Red sox; Kuhel, Senators.
Leaders-DiMaggio, Yankees, SO; Foxx,
Red sox. 20; Gehrig, Yankees, Is; Med
wick Cardinals, 26; Greenberg, Tigers,
Is; Trosky, Indians, rs.
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Bowen Also Booed

Too, on the same bill, Referee
Ray Bowen, who is showing lot
of acumen as a budding official,
was hooted for not letting AL Dun
bar come up for the second round.
Dunbar had that far away look,
so Bowen, followed his inStruc-
lions and his schooling.
Some uncouth cad yelled
another run.out" when Kid
HOWE was announced as substi-
tute for Willie Mcbride. However,
Willie didn't run out.
He appeared in the afternoon
for a medical examination and
was found to have high blood pres
sure. The same medico came close
to not passing Dunbar, also, be-
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at rs, Carries Hopes
of Building Champion
By FRANK 'BUCK" O'NEILL

Connie Mack looks at life and baseball with IS years of expert
to guide him. and finds them both good If the Grand Old
Man of baseball had all do again. he would hit the trail
seek his goal at the top No worth winning that
not worth playing to the end No quest worth starting that
cannot be carried through to the goal
Connie has parahased the philosophy expressed by Lang
don Smith in Evolution" and says to you
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and Goot

THE HERO-Johnny Murphy,
whose relief pitching again en-.
abIed the Yankees to come
through with an 8-to-5 win over
the Red Sox in IA innings.
THE GOAT - Tony Lazzeri,
of the Yankees, who missed an
easy pop fly in the ninth and
enabled the Red Sox to go IA
innings.
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De SOTA|s TOPS
ASODDSREDUCE
TO SHORT PRICE
10000 on Hand For
Big Alfalfa Classic
BY DAVIS J. WALSH

International News Service Sports Editor
GOSHEN, N. Y, Aug. 12.-After
q night made hideouS by the vio-
lent chirping of cricketS and the
alarming croak Of plainly misun-
derStood frogs, the overnight coll
ony here came awake this morn
ing to discover that its attention
and interest no longer repoSed
solely in the field Of IL trotters in
the $4,000 Hambletonian Stakes.
The big news of the day. in fact.
revolved around the crop of resi-.
dent. bunionS, old folks with the
misery" and other harbingers
that have been found. by precept
and long practice, to be much less
fallible than the weather man.
For the Hambletonian can't and
won't 60 on with a muddy track
and, after taking a poStponement
yesterday, there was enough mud
around here to start another CarlS-
bad. Moreover, the official fore
cast today was for overcast skies
and occasional showers; so that
everything now is just splendid
and we'll positively have a horse
race as soon as we can find the
track.
Yesterday, it finished under
water as a deluge broke over tie
stately Ramapo Valley, driving
10000 to cover and some Of them
to anger. There was no refund
on tickets bought over the counter.
There also was no hotel space last
night.
RETURN HOME
So quite some few returned to
distant points without either their
horse race or their money, al.
though some years ago you could
have even topped that.
On that occasion, the horse
race started in New York and
finished all the way out in Ken
lucky, so often and so assiduously
did it rain. It isn't that want
to be unnecessarily cheerful. I
just thought I'd mention it.
Anyhow, the same field of IL
will start, whenever it can, and
the same favorite, De Sofa, will
get the play in the handbooks
under the stands. He'll even be
shorter price this time, possibly
since the word is that the longer
he rests the better he is.
BEATEN FAVORITE
And, in truth, he seems to be
good enough for he has twice
beaten the winter book favorite,
Twilight Song, at the HANDLE
tonian distance of one mile and
under Hambletonian conditions.
He also has won impressively
from Farr, SchnappS. Southland
and other fancied colts in the race.
so that seemingly all he has to do
is run to his usual racing form
in order to win for dear old Paul
BowSer.
The field of twelve is one short
Of the record entry of 1926. the
first year of the race, but most Of
them don't seem to have the
chance of a doorstep founding.
DeSota not only is reckoned to
have the best set of heels; he also
has the superior post position
namely number one. whereas the
serious contenderS are well of
toward the outside rail.
FAIR IN EIGHTH
Farr is No. 8, for instance:
SchnappS. No. 6; Twilight Song.
No. II, and Southland all the way
on the outside. That kind of thing
means lot in harness racing.
It isn't surprising, therefore,
that Schnapps and Twilight Song
are no better than 81 in the over.
night odds, with Southland at
1871 and Farr at Is. AS matter
of fact. third choices are the Han
over girls, Alice and Shirley, each
at 6 to /.
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Major League
Standings

YESTERDAYS RESULTS
WASHINGTON, 5; Philadelphia, 4.
New York, SO; Boston. 5-4. (First
game IA innings.)
Cleveland, ST; st. Louis, "a. (Sec.
ond game called end of seventh.
Chicago at Detroit-rain.
TODAY'S GAMES
Philadelphia at WASHINGTON.
New York at Boston.
Chicago at Detroit.
st. Louis at Cleveland.
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BATTING HIGHER NOW

Harry Craft, Waterloo outfielder,
who Is bidding for the batting
championship Of the Western
League this year, hit only .286 a
year ago. He is hitting 80 points
higher this season.
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JACOB, GORDON
OPPONENTS IN
DOUBLES TEST
Molly Thompson
Is Singles Victor
BY HARRY COSTELLO


Molly Thompson, sturdy 13-year-
old Chevy Chase Playground ten
mis- star, today will endeavor to
make it two championships in a
row.
Molly won the Public Recrea-
ton junior girls singles champion
ship yesterday. Today she will
endeavor, with the aid of her
partner, Margot Mink, to win the
doubles title for Chevy Chase.
Opposed to Molly and Margot
today will be Betty Jacob. de-
feated by Molly yesterday for the
singles title, and Harriet Gordon.
who represent the MontroSe Play
ground.
Molly and Margot are favored
to win today's doubles champion
ship match, principally because
Molly so clearly established her
superiority yesterday over Miss
Jacob admittedly the outstanding
player of the MontroSe entry.
SURPRISING EASE
Miss Thompson yesterday took
the singles title with surprising
ease in straight sets, 81, 6-3.
This easy victory appeared a bit
incongruous, in the light of Tues
days happenings, when Betty col
lapsed after a long second set in
the original singles championship
match.
On Tuesday, after Betty had
won the first set, Ga. Molly took
the second at 81. Shortly after
15-minute recess was declared,
at the conclusion of that long
second set, Betty collapsed. Off
Gals of the department of play
grounds administered first aid, in
the form of cold applications, to
revive Betty, but Maude Nelson
Parker, director of womean's &C.
tivities for the department of
Fairgrounds, refused to permit
the stricken youngster to continue
and ordered the whole match re-
played. 1t was replayed yester-
day, and a large gallery Of tennis
enthusiasts attended fully expect
ing to see another close, hard
fought battle. Instead, the gal
leryites saw Miss Thompson win
with ease.
NO ILL EFFECTS
Miss Jacob yesterday showed no
i'll effects whatsoever from her
experience of Tuesday and Miss
Thompson's victory was so clear
cut as to leave no doubt as to
her Superiority-at least yester-
day--over her Montrose opponent.
Molly started with a rush and
repeated Betty's stunt of Tuesday
by winning the first four games
of the first set. In those first
four games. the sturdy Chevy
Chase youngster played exception
ally fine tennis, while Betty was
wild with her favorite stroke, a
smashing forehand.
Betty took the fifth game, more
because of Molly's temporary lapse
than because of Betty's superior
play. In this game, Molly was
careless and instead of playing
carefully, as she had done in the
first four games, she began
smuggling the ball. In the fifth
and sixth games, however. Miss
Thompson returned to her tactics
of the first four games and won
the final two games of the set,
with ease.
Betty improved in the second
set. but not enough to overcome
Molly's advantage. In the third,
fifth and sixth games Of this set,
Miss Jacob offered her best ten
mis- of the day. Her forehand
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YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Chicago, 5; Pittsburgh, /.
St. Louis. g. Cincinnati, 2.
Boston at New York (rain).
Brooklyn at Philadelphia (rain).
TODAY's GAMES
Pittsburgh at Chicago.
Boston at New York.
Cincinnati at st. Louis.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.