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...this strange and bloody epoch of the sea," pipe Publishers Doubleday, forgetting in their rapture that "epic" is the proper pennant to hoist on such occasions, "Robert Graves turns his incomparable talents to the remarkable Ysabel Barreto -beautiful and dangerous-who used treachery, intrigue, and love to become the first woman admiral in the Spanish navy and then embarked on a perilous voyage, filled with incredible and startling adventures, to the Solomon Islands in search of gold...
Died. Richard (Dick) Rudolph, 62, star righthanded pitcher of the 1914 Boston Braves; of a heart ailment; in The Bronx. Spearheaded by Spitballer Rudolph's 27 victories (twelve of them consecutive), the Braves zoomed from last place on July 4th to win the National League pennant, the World Series (in four games), and the historic title "Miracle Team...
Ever since I was three I have wanted to play on the Harvard football team some day. Please send me a red Harvard pennant to put in my room. Before I was three I wanted to play on the Yale football team like my sister wants...
With Yankee Veteran Allie Reynolds pitching brilliant, two-hit ball, the 66,222 fans had seen some of the tightest precision baseball since the days of Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender. But there was no delirium in the stands; coming as it did after cliff-hanger finales in both pennant races, this hitless brand of play was not the kind to inspire frenzied cheering. In the second game, the story was almost the same, in reverse. Brooklyn's skinny, curve-balling lefthander, Preacher Roe, gave up only six scattered hits while his teammates babied the one-run lead they...
Dodger Day. Exactly 36 minutes later in Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the Dodgers hauled in the National League pennant with a 9-7 ten-inning victory over the Phillies. In the final week, they had gone to the top of the league (after six weeks in second place) by winning a crashing doubleheader in the rain over the Boston Braves (9-2 and 8-0). But they had less reason to thank their own bats than the batty stretch-run performance of the Cardinals...