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...outstanding feature of the first half of the current season has been the home run hitting of Outfielder Ruth of the New York Yankees. Damned in neo-season days as "a fat slob, good for nothing," Babe Ruth has thrice slapped the cheeks of his criticizers by not only ascending to within four homeruns of his 1921 world's record (when he hit 30 homeruns by the Fourth of July) but by leading the American League in total number of runs scored and (greatest of all) by maintaining the highest batting average in the League. However, it now appears...
...young players who are performing distinguishedly, large shambling Babe Herman (left handed first baseman for Brooklyn) and swarthy agile Anthony Lazzeri (second baseman of the Yankees) are perhaps the most conspicuous. Both have done well as homerun hitters. A week ago, Herman led the National League in batting...
...contents of any daily publication to Fate, because so very often Fate falls down badly and comes to the office empty handed. There are days, of course, when Life turns out prodigious copy. Quakes sometimes come on the very afternoon that Kings are dying. Cyclones have attempted to crowd Babe Ruth out of his fair share of space by picking the very day on which he made two home runs as their own time to break loose and wreck a city. It is too bad that some of the news on busy days...
...Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Primate of England, Archbishop of York, stood with uplifted finger. The scene was the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Present were the King, the Queen, Edward of Wales, Princess Mary, the Duke and Duchess of York, many another and an unchristened babe...
...Praise the Lord. Ye Heavens, adore Him," sang the assembled august company as the christening came to an end. Heavy with the awful responsibilities incurred through being christened, the royal babe was borne away. Like many a cotter's offspring in similar circumstances, she was unabashed...