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The Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins, 4 to 2, to take a 1 to 0 lead in games in the finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs in the National Hockey League . . . Ernie Lombardi, one-time batting champion of the National League, attempted suicide by slashing his throat and is in critical condition in a West Coast Hospital. . . Woman athlete Babe Zaharias' long and fabulous career may be over as she is suffering from a malady reportedly of malignant nature . . . The Associated Press Poll of the Baseball Writers' Association of America predicted that the World Series will have the Yankees facing the Dodgers again this fall. . . Harvard's subsidiary, the St. Louis Cardinals, bought Sportsman's Park from the Browns. . . Chick Harbert fired a four-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead in the first round of the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

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