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...began warming up. A game ahead, Manager Gabby Street could afford to gamble by starting right-handed Sylvester Johnson. He gave Philadelphia a run in the first inning, was replaced in the sixth after Jimmy Foxx had hit a homerun over the left field fence. Only one St. Louis batter managed to hit George Earnshaw?Pepper Martin who got a single in the fifth inning, a two-base hit in the eighth. Philadelphia...
...field that scored one run and left two on base. Young Paul Derringer mopped his face with a handkerchief. The stands were so quiet that when a man in the grandstand coughed, the Philadelphia coach at first base looked up at the sound. Pitcher Derringer walked the next two batters, forcing in another run. The batter who followed them, Jimmy Foxx, sent a single into dead center field that scored two runs. It was the hit that won the game, making Simmons' home-run, with a man on base in the seventh inning, superfluous. For the next six innings...
...locomotive at an open gap in the rails. At Portadown, County Armagh, Orangemen and Republicans fought in the streets for two days with stones and bottles of Guinness's Stout. Orangemen rallied to the tune of "Dolly's Brae" and "Derry's Walls," and attempted to batter down the gates of a convent with an old pushcart for a battering ram. A well-flung whiskey bottle laid out the chief constable...
Firemen had to batter down bolted gates before they could get into the yard, put up their ladders, fight the flames. On the dark lawn were laid the dead and dying, with priests moving up and down administering the last sacrament. The dead: 40. Injured...
...inning with a fly to Ticknor at left field. Lupien started Harvard's half of the frame by driving out a long fly to right field, a ball which proved too much for Pray of Rhode Island, who juggled the sphere for a long enough time to let the batter circle the bases. Sheldon hit safely, after which Martynik took a brace and struck out Mays and Taylor. Passes to McCaffrey and McGrath filled the bases, but Cragan pulled his team out of a bad hole by hurling himself high against the screen behind the batter's box to capture...