Word: gooch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Herrick Gooch, nephew of Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France; to Miss Elizabeth Carroll Abell of Baltimore...
...Pittsburgh pitcher, struck out Batters Gehrig and Meusel and had one strike on Batter Lazzeri. Even the New York crowd almost wished that Pitcher Miljus would throw two more strikes. But the error habit was too well established. Pitcher Miljus threw the ball far from the plate and Catcher Gooch cuffed but could not stop it. It rolled to the grandstand while Base Runner Combs ran in (he could almost have walked in) with the generous Pirates' parting gift. Thus, flatly, anticlimactically, ended the World's Series...
...ROBERT GOOCH...
...which of the four major powers was most responsible for the catastrophe. Mr. Gooch was not prepared to make out a very plausible case for its action...
Continuing, Mr. Gooch said, "The first and most definite result of my studies shows no evidence whatever that any of the rulers or prime ministers or foreign secretaries of the great powers desired a World War. The proportion of responsibility attaching to each country and each statesman is a matter of opinion, and complete agreement on these proportions will never be reached. I entirely agree with the famous doctrine of Lloyd George that the statesmen of Europe did not mean war in 1914 but 'stumbled and staggered into...