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...Purdy, the chatterer, the magpie. They considered Andy Cohen, smart at second for the Giants, surprising at bat, prize of the seven-years' search of Manager McGraw for a Jewish player to pull in the New York crowds. But baseball games are won at bat and it was batters the critics talked about most on the Fourth of July, singling from among them the two leading their respective leagues on that day. On that day Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was batting close to .414 for Washington. Sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, sharp-eyed, amiable, fast, lazy, and a tireless autographer...
General Umberto Nobile and friends were last week being rescued. Ice breakers from Norway and Russia, airplanes from Italy and France, Finland and Sweden, sought to batter their way to three moving targets on the Arctic ice packs. From the chaos of radio messages, authentic and faked, which told of the disaster to the expedition of Polar Pilgrim Nobile, these facts at length emerged: Pilgrim Nobile with five companions, one seriously injured, was perilously adrift on an island of blinding ice, which was growing steadily smaller as water channels opened; seven men, cast loose in the airship after the wreck...
...Yale runs came in the second frame, on two hits, three walks, three errors, and a hit batter. The last four innings of the game were slow and listless, except for the two Eli double plays. HARVARD FRESHMEN a.b. r. h. p.o. a. e. Basseff, c.f. 4 1 0 2 0 0 Gilmor, r.f. 2 1 2 1 0 0 Sims, r.f. 0 0 0 0 0 0 McGrath, s.s. 2 2 1 3 1 0 DesRoches, 2b. 3 2 1 0 3 0 Samborski, 1b. 4 1 1 10 0 1 Ticknor...
...Forbid the batsman to step out of the batter's box in order to disconcert the pitcher...
...Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately strangling him. Was it sane courage or his own deranged brute instinct that inspired burly George Remus to leap at the Negro maniac, to smash and batter the Negro with his fists until the throttled guard could get free; to continue fighting until, with the guard's help, the Negro was over- powered and clapped into a cell...