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...Chicago Cubs have been more troublesome than the Cardinals. Early in June Manager Grimm and Shortstop Jurges were fined $50 and $25 respectively for misbehaving. A few days later Jurges, Root, English and W. Herman were all ejected from the same game. Another day English was fined...
...scope and perfect efficiency of the course is inconceivable; with him it remains an eighth wonder. Dr. Herrick is a born pedagog, inspiring, able to induce a desire for knowledge and to get results. He has a wealth of anecdotal and related information which makes the driest, application of Grimm's law or the third rule for the use of the subjunctive less grim, and the dullest passage of Immensee romantic and entrancing; still he tolerates few irrelevant digressions. His sympathy with his students is that of a man who understands their difficulties and makes the path as smooth...
...Outfielder Cuyler last week. In a game against Hollywood he fractured his right leg sliding to second base. He broke a bone in his foot a year ago and got back into the lineup in time to help his team win the pennant. More discouraging to Manager Charles Grimm has been the failure of his new pitchers to round into shape, though he has a staff of able veterans-Malone, Bush, Root, Warneke -to fall back upon...
...Fred Spencer of Plainfield, N. J. and William ("Torchy") Peden of Vancouver. B. C.: one of the closest six-day bicycle races on record; by 14 points (for sprinting) from the teams of Norman Hill & William Grimm. Three other teams were in the tie for distance covered, 2,482 mi. and 9 laps. Month ago Peden and Jules Audy of Montreal who started the Manhattan race with Peden but was forced out by injuries after a fall, won a six-day race, in Chicago...
...began with what he called "suitable restraint": "Neither Hans Christian Andersen nor Carl Grimm in appealing to the fancies of children ever overtaxed his imagination as President Hoover repeatedly has done in his endeavor to regain the lost favor of the American people. Contrasted, with his addresses, Aesop's Fables deserve to rank as accurate history...