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Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Gomez, 67, mother of ace New York Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez; in Rodeo, Calif...
...generally considered that the Yankees had the American League pennant practically won. But they had just lost three straight games to the feeble Philadelphia Athletics, and the Senators had just stretched a winning streak to eight games. And there was also the problem of Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez...
...York Yankees' crack Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, ardent believer in astrology, blamed Finsler's Comet (TIME, Aug. 2) for his failure to win a baseball game in a month. "On July IQ," said sad Pitcher Gomez, "I beat Cleveland for my 13th victory. Then Finsler's Comet began to edge into the picture and I knew right off I was cooked. Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together...
Permitted three pitchers, pitching not over three innings each, the Nationals needed six. The Americans started with Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez of the Yankees. who hurled three scoreless innings. The Nationals started with Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, who reveled in striking out Lou Gehrig in the first inning. Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run, scoring his teammate Joe Di Maggio ahead...
With both sides appealing to Boss Batista to intervene, the Boss was disposed to caution. Cuba's stoutly independent Supreme Court last week ordered the Senate special tribunal to show why it had refused an appeal to onetime President Miguel Mariano Gomez, whom the tribunal impeached last December for balking at Boss Batista's military school program (TIME...