Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eager California newsgatherers boarded a train at Santa Barbara last week and rudely interrupted Berlin's crop-headed, saber-scarred Mayor Gustav Boess in a pinochle game...
...First Game. People who had figured that 35-year-old Spitballer Howard Ehmke would work in the series only if every other Philadelphia pitcher was sick or knocked out of the box, did not reckon on an odd understanding between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good...
...Second Game. Outfielder Jimmy Foxx, the youngest Philadelphian, knocked a wild pitch for a home-run, his second of the series, with two friends on base. In the fourth inning the Athletics scored three times more and Manager McCarthy of Chicago took out Malone, one of his best pitchers. With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than...
...Third Game. Cub Pitcher Guy Bush coming up to bat at the start of the sixth, capered, skipped and grimaced according to instructions of McCarthy, who had said to him: "See if you can diddle a walk." With Bush and English on base, Hornsby and Cuyler, razzed as they came up for having struck out twelve times in two games and a half, each made clean hits. After that Pitcher Bush seemed to get more speed on the ball; his curve broke faster and Philadelphia only got one more hit. Cubs 3, Athletics...
...Fourth Game. Pitcher Charlie Root had kept the Athletics to three scattered hits and the Cubs were leading 8 to 0 when Left Fielder Simmons of Philadelphia came up to bat in the seventh inning. While a phonograph pushed up against amplifiers played "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" and the crowd screamed as no World Series crowd has screamed for a decade, Simmons hit a home run; Foxx, Miller, Dykes, Boley and Bishop singled. Old left-handed Arthur Nehf, who used to pitch for the Giants, went in for Root. Then Pitcher Blake went...