Market Idles, Traders Turn To Ball Game
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 UP).ÛÓIn the slowest session in more than five weeks, the stock market today held to a steady course.</br></br>The slowness was induced by the victory of the Yankees over the Dodgers 4 to 2. Attention was on the ball game, not the market.</br></br>During the morning there were flickers of action here and there. Chrysler with 3800 shares traded up % at 84V4 and North- ern Pacific with 7200 shares traded up 3A at 64% tried to spark a rally, and activity in those two stocks difl prove to be a preliminary show of strength in a mild rise.</br></br>Radio-televisions also came to life for a brief time, and the high-priced oils ran up some good gains, but that was about all.</br></br>The Associated Press average of 60 stocks closed unchanged at $105.70 with the industrial component unchanged, the railroads up 10 cents, and the utilities down 20 cents.