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Every sport follower in America (which means more than 90 percent of the population) knows now that Babe Ruth played in the recent World's Series on his nerve. He had a bad leg and an infected arm. When he was taken out of the fifth game he was on the verge of collapse...
Great is the nation which produces a Babe Ruth, and takes both pride and joy in the manifestations of his prow ness. The superman in baseball has arrived, and, thanks to the scientists, we know why he is a superman. May, we not hope that succeeding generations of Americans, profiting by a knowledge of the reasons for the success of our athletes, will develop to the full limit their eyes, their ears, their nerves and their muscles, and enter the game of life trained to knock out "home runs" in their chosen callings? The superman, whether in baseball, statemanship...
...stranger as it seems to be natural to the native. When the fair heroine is sobbing with all the lachrymose exertions that lie within her dramatic command, when the aged squire is struck dead from behind with an axe, or when, at the w. k. psychological moment, a wailing babe is introduced as evidence, then the audience takes its cue to shake with laughter. Sometimes its amusement is short-lived, barely rippling over the house in a trickle of chuckles; sometimes it is frankly ever-powering, vented by hearty guffaws or gurgles; but always it is indicated in one form...
...were Reds who had threatened in pen and ink to have his life's blood. "You will be shot Friday night at 12," wrote one of the avengers. Peters had made brave war upon the Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected...
William T. Tilden, 2d, who will speak tonight in the living room of the Union, needs no introduction and deservedly so. He has become in the past few years as much of national figure as Babe Ruth and not to be familiar with his name and fame is to confess oneself a shut-in. In his talk here, Mr. Tilden will treat of the game's personal side and tell some of his experiences while travelling about the world on American tennis teams. His subject is excellently cosmopolitan and there is little reason for those who have seen...