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First Game. It was a muggy day. Kenesaw Mountain Landis ate ham sandwiches rapidly and had his picture taken. Jack Dempsey, spectator, twisted his battered face into a smile. Sombre Rogers Hornsby, manager and second baseman of the Cardinals, came up to bat, pushed back his cap, was cheered for two and a half minutes. The first and most exciting inning of the game ended with one run for each team. Thereafter Pitchers Pennock and Sherdel twisted their slow left handers over the corners of the plate, hot-dog venders dragged themselves along the aisles. In the sixth inning Baseman...
...frenzied welcome. Rain fell at midnight. It was still falling in the afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from Phillipsburg, Ohio, held the Yankees to five hits. Still unsatisfied, he grasped a slim yellow bat and drove one of the deliveries of his opponent, furtive "Dutch" Ruether, into the right-field bleachers for a home run. Score: St. Louis, 4; New York...
...Donovan Affair. Owen Davis, author of well over a hundred plays, is to be credited with having written what promises to be the biggest mystery play success since The Bat. The playwright has managed to put so much suspense and excitement into his three acts that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close...
Dwight Filly Davis Jr., who received a "Louisville Slugger" ball bat autographed by Babe Ruth, because he was judged the best soldier-athlete at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Plattsburg...
...where else has it been recorded that, when a rat creeps into a bird's nest, their monstrous issue is a bat...