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...good out of it would be the lawyers. The whole thing is absolutely wrong. It goes against my Yankee common sense. I'd rather be wrong on my law than give my sanction to legal nonsense. They say justice is blind but it is not blind as a bat." Judge Lowell's decision did not actually free George Crawford because Massachusetts continued to hold the prisoner on $25,000 bail pending an appeal to a special session of the U. S. Circuit Court later this month. But it did send wave on wave of indignation rolling through Middleburg...
Stirling Adams, c.f., who made two of the five hits off Ray White of the Lions, Saturday, will lead off, followed by Johnny Ware, r.f., and with Ham Thacher 3b, and Charley Nevin c., in the clean-up position. Frank Gleason 1b., will bat fifth followed by Jim McCaffrey l.f., who shared batting honors with Adams against Columbia, Phil Hines 2b., and Charles Sargent s.s. Coach Fred Mitchell has not yet made the choice between Harold Taylor and John McJennett to take the mound. Taylor, a lanky right hander pitched the two games against Brown last year in which...
...were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from the Hills.} Hearst hired special trains at the slightest drop of the journalistic hat to get big stories. And with the Examiner he tried his first crusading...
...slow to get a start in the game. In the second inning B.U., after two outs massed four runs, and followed up with three more two innings later. Hovenanian starred for Harvard at the plate by getting three hits out of five times at bat. Woods played a stellar game in the field. Three Crimson pitchers failed to fame the B.U., bats, Croke making a home run for the opponents...
...been done in sound but the treatment is fresh, the characters new. Elmer (Joe E. Brown) is a temperamental yap. The Chicago Cubs buy his contract, find he has lost interest in baseball, make a deal with his girl (Patricia Ellis) to lure him into camp. There he bats out their best pitcher, walks off raging because they are incompetent. Between fits of injured dignity Elmer finds time to bat the team into the "World Serious," then riots himself into jail, refuses to come out and play. When he is finally released his confreres suspect that he has been dickering...