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...stolid young man and one of the few professional baseballers who plays on a home town team. His Teutonic mother & father were caretakers at a Columbia fraternity house. Son Lou went to Columbia, played on the ball team, signed a contract with the Yankees. Babe Ruth coached him in batting: in a year or two Gehrig was, next to Ruth, the hardest hitter in the most potent batting machine baseball had ever know:n. In 1927, Gehrig was voted most valuable player in the American League. He batted in nine runs in the 1928 World Series (a record): he tied...
...once, pitching carefully, without allowing a hit. At the start of the fourth. Bush walked Combs. made Scwell ground out, frowned darkly when Ruth hit a whistling single to right. Gehrig, stamping his feet on the caked dust, waited till the count was two balls and two strikes. His bat met the next pitch, a Bush screwball, squarely. The ball traveled into the screaming right field bleachers for a homerun...
From his Kentish grave William Gilbert Grace, M. D., last week must have wanted to cry approbation for the thought which the learned British Association for the Advancement of Science (continuing its York meeting) gave to the subject of cricket bats. Dr. Grace's father, uncle, and four brothers (notably the late great Edward Mills Grace who also was a doctor of medicine) were able cricketers during Queen Victoria's reign. But William Gilbert ("W. G.") Grace was incomparably the world's greatest all-round player the game has ever produced. A huge...
...Whether Thomas Bat'a ruthlessly exploited his working partners or made them comfortable & happy is the subject of bitterly controversial labor literature in Europe. In normal times the wage of expert Lynn shoemakers averaged $30 gold per week, expert Zlin shoemakers $13.50 gold. But the House of Bat'a claimed to provide married working partners with houses having bath and electric light for 45? per week, served restaurant meals at 8? each, "four meals...
Eight of the Australians who played in Manhattan last week were on the team that won the "Ashes" - symbol of world's championship - from England in 1930. Captain was Victor Y. Richardson, a first-class bat and Australia's greatest fielder. The team had a fine wicket-keep in Harry Carter, 54, oldest man on the team. Bowler Fleetwood-Smith dismissed the South Africans twice this season in Australia and will be a valuable googlie* bowler for the test matches next year...