Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no argument but that the game has changed since "Home Run" Baker mad? his name by knocking 12 homeruns during the season of 1913. "Babe" Ruth knocked 60 in 1927. Young Outfielder Klein had hit 29 this season up to last weekend. In the old days, the good aver age hitter batted about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs...
...feelings for General Pershing, the records should be kept straight. If you will remember, General Pershing had proven himself to the War Department to be a commander who could follow orders to the very last letter.** That was the type of a commanding officer whom Secretary Baker desired, and it was Secretary Baker and General Moseley, now of El Paso, who were responsible for the selection of Gen eral Pershing for his high command. Senectissimus may have had something to do with Pershing's marvelous rise from Captain to Brigadier, but in this important matter he had no hand...
...When Baker Krusack hears about Louie and how Jencic is accepting defeat in love, he promises to fire Jencic if he does not lick Louie at once, and without getting drunk first...
...hides in a dark doorway. Sharp-eyed Louie yanks him out by the collar. At last Jencic awakes. He grabs Louie by the throat, smashes his face. Down goes Louie, then up with a knife. Mighty Jencic just advances slowly, arms out seeking to crush, face murderous. Louie retreats. Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade, so you will learn it all the faster...
Jencic refuses until she weeps. Then Louie cannot be found. Then the truth comes out. Louie has got her pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is true she done something she shouldn't do, but after we get married it will be all right. Everybody makes mistakes. What if people didn't forget such mistakes, then everybody would be mad at everybody else, and nobody would have even one friend...