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Bare percentage points on top of the National League, John McGraw's Giants had just dropped the first two of a three-game series with the second-place Chicago Cubs, managed by Frank Chance. In the ninth inning of the final game, the score at the Polo Grounds was tied, 1-1. There were two outs when the Giants' Outfielder "Moose" McCormick beat out a single. Long-legged Fred Merkle, the Giants' first baseman, sent him to third with another single. Shortstop Al Bridwell lined a clean base hit over the head of the Cubs' Second...
Until the day he died in 1934, the Giants' Manager McGraw insisted that Evers had made the put-out with a phony ball. According to McGraw, his first-base coach, Old Pitcher "Iron Man" McGinnity, had grabbed the ball hit by Bridwell and heaved it into the stands. Evers, of course, told a different version, and the league decided that this time Evers was right...
...proved that they are here to stay. The big, old stores had to give up old-fashioned ideas of high markups and open up outlying warehouses where customers could pick up goods at cut-rate prices. Even such diehard Fair Traders as W. A. Schaeffer Pen Co. and McGraw Electric's Toastmaster division either abandoned their Fair Trade principles or started backing down. And last week General Electric chopped appliance prices as much as 30% right down the line...
Another blow came from the Michigan Supreme Court. It reaffirmed an earlier ruling that a state fair-trade law could be enforced only against those retailers who had signed fair-trade agreements,* thus touched off a wave of defections. Toastmaster division of McGraw Electric Co., a longtime staunch defender of price fixing, discontinued enforcement in Michigan, thus chose the course taken there by General Electric weeks earlier. By week's end Sunbeam Corp., which had never willingly permitted its products to be discounted, joined the surrender and canceled all its fair-trade contracts with Michigan retailers. The State Supreme...
HENRY'S WONDERFUL MODEL T, by Floyd Clymer (219 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $5.95), and TIN LIZZIE, by Philip Van Doren Sfern (180 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3.95), celebrate the rugged lifetime (1908-27) of that noble and uncommon carrier, the Model T Ford. The splendid pictures and authoritative text are guaranteed to bring out the old nostalgia...