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...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...
College of the City of New York experimented. Under the white rays of 33,000 watts of electric flood lights they defeated an alumni eleven 5-0 in a night game. Spectators followed the open plays; were puzzled by shadows in line plunges. The traditional grandstand background of spectators, girls, coonskin coats was blotted out. The experiment was deemed unsatisfactory for important games. A white ball was used...
...autumn ball. Chooing and spitting cinders, old grandmother engines chatted in squeaky, steamy voices and pooh-poohed the advances of young, sleek, oily, lusty freight-pushers. The Exhibition began when some Indians, who were really porters and ticket takers on the Baltimore & Ohio, went whooping loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which had been lent by Comedian Fred Stone. Then, on the loop of tracks, came a reproduction of Tom Thumb, the first of all steam engines, driven by an imitation of its inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer...
...President sat in a grandstand and listened to a speech. "Every American boy ought to want to be President of the United States, but when he develops and finds his real work that work may be even more important than being President. . . ." The speechmaker was Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor;* the occasion was the dedication of a Boy Scout camp near Custer, S. Dak. The President was informed that its name would be Camp Coolidge...
Wrapping Mrs. Coolidge in a horseblanket on the grandstand of the Pine Ridge fairgrounds, the President first beheld a Sioux pageant-including war-painted savages, bareback riding and children dressed as beets, carrots, cabbages. He received presents from the Misses Nancy Redcloud, Rosa Red-hair, Jessie Marrowbone, Mary Little Iron, Jennie Blue Horse, Emma No Horse and several chiefs...