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...meant that the Giants won a close ball game, 2-to-1. Winning the ball game meant that the Giants had won the National League Pennant, set the stage for a World Series that will be not merely the equinoctial climax of a great baseball year but a sporting freak of the first order...
...struggle between Hubbell and Gehrig. Lean, morose Carl Owen Hubbell is currently baseball's No. 1 Pitcher and among the half dozen ablest in the game's annals. Jolly, thick-legged Henry Louis Gehrig is the game's No. 1 batsman. Even more remarkable than the freak that made this year's World Series antagonists so geographically close and so temperamentally remote was the freak that made it include also the two greatest figures in the game, each symbolizing perfectly his team's specialty...
From Chicago the Dixieland went to Manhattan where earnings reached $1,500 per week, to London where that fee was more than doubled. At first, many found the Dixieland's music disconcerting. The players wore freak hats, jigged all over the platform, had a stuffed monkey set up in front of the drums with electric lights for eyes and a baton that waved automatically. Popular tunes when the Dixieland first went North were Pretty Baby, They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting...
...matters rather less than many imagine whether Governor Landon, Senator Vandenburg, Colonel Knox, or some one of the darker horses like Senator Steiwer is finally nominate. It would matter a great deal if Senator Borah, by some freak turn of Fortune's wheel, were nominated. Should he, with his inflationary visions and incept record in foreign affairs, be nominated, the voter would face the unpleasant prospect of choosing between the devil and the deep blue...
Enclosed herein is a snapshot of a freak sheep that may be termed a "Unicorn." You will note that it has a horn on the end of its nose. This is a three-year-old ewe (female sheep), raised on the range in this district, Ely, Nev. The picture was taken in April 1936 and shows the animal after shearing. It's a freak and not a transplanted horn. Presumed the picture would be of interest to you. D. A. HUGHES...