From baseball reference FWIW.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/te...e-scores.shtml
On Sept 8, 1954 Boston played Detroit at Detroit. They were in the middle of a road trip that ran from Sept 3-19.
Of course, the previous game was in NY on the 6th, so someone could have mailed it for him if they went back to to Boston from NY. (Doubleheader, so maybe the NYPO was closed after the game ended?)
Steve B