Word: home-run
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...Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them up to the Yankee Stadium soon, promises to try and knock a home-run in their honor...
...Haas, knocked a double into left field that scored one run and left two on base. Young Paul Derringer mopped his face with a handkerchief. The stands were so quiet that when a man in the grandstand coughed, the Philadelphia coach at first base looked up at the sound. Pitcher Derringer walked the next two batters, forcing in another run. The batter who followed them, Jimmy Foxx, sent a single into dead center field that scored two runs. It was the hit that won the game, making Simmons' home-run, with a man on base in the seventh inning...
...York Yankees: a game against the St. Louis Browns, 11-7, in which George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit his 35th home-run of the season, the 600th of his big-league career, and was later ejected from the game for arguing with the umpire...
...Hauser, first baseman for the Baltimore "Orioles" (International League): the home-run record of the world; by hitting his 61st of the year in a game with Newark. Previous recordist: George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of New York, who made...
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...