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They'd put up even money now, with Casey at the bat...
Baseball, as a whole, should no more suffer for the acts of two individuals than should any other business. As soon as the American public realized that its national sport is not a sport, that it is paying men to handle a baseball and a bat cleverly, and that it is giving them bonuses for winning, baseball scandals will be accepted as calmly as bankruptcies in Wall Street...
Like a chauffeur that can hang curtains, or a cook that can crochet, a baseball pitcher that can bat is a rare and 'desirable possession. Last week, a committee of sport writers voted one such "most valuable to his team" of all players in the American League this season...
...island is said to harbor amphibians "of new and strange habits," species of insects "never described," 2,000 species of "strange and exotic" plants. Moreover, it "abounds" in anteaters, sloths, armadillos, peccaries, tapirs, agoutis, coatis, ocelots, jaguars, several kinds of bat monkeys and "black howlers...
Coach Slattery has decided to use Brown in the box with Cheek behind the bat. The erratic southpaw was a big disappointment in the Dartmouth game, Wednesday, but Coach Slattery still banks upon him heavily for service in the Yale series and he believes that a hard workout today will put him in first class condition. Cheek's throwing to bases and all around aggressive play Wednesday have given him the call to start today, but it is still a problem who will don the mask and protector against Yale. Samborski's batting is too potent a factor...