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...helmeted Hopping slammed his pony unchecked into rangy Boeseke, rolled him to the ground and his pony over him. With a twisted right ankle, Boeseke played on. A foul was called and the West scored its first goal. For five periods the West kept within striking distance. But formidable Rube Williams could not seem to get loose, and Cecil Smith was hitting wild. Hopping was everywhere, his red helmet charging into every scrimmage, sometimes entirely surrounded by Western players. As the white wooden ball shot out of a scrimmage, the ponies would prance up & down for a moment of suspense...
...their new manager, Frank Frisch, who last week replaced Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, 8 to 2; in which Pitcher Jerome ("Dizzy") Dean struck out 17 Chicago batters, one more than the modern record which was jointly held by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker; and in which his catcher, Jimmy Wilson, was enabled to make a record also, with 18 putouts; at St. Louis. Manager Frisch's oldtime rival, Rogers Hornsby, this year his understudy on the Cardinals, last week left the team to become manager...
...accepted outline. It gives glimpses of a circus train in motion; a plump bibulous circus-proprietor; a moth-eaten lion ; a fight in which the circus performers are attacked by the population of a small town and they defend themselves with brickbats and fists, shouting the traditional "Hey, Rube!" loudly and frequently. The local color is not new but it is fairly well done. The story itself, about two sisters, one an old trouper, the other a school girl on vacation, both of them attached to a handsome young barker, seems as moth-eaten as the lion. Winnie Lightner, hitherto...
...Surrender!" is one of those slogans like "Hey Rube!" which mean little except to the initiate. "No Surrender!" means nothing particular nowadays, but not so many years ago it would have been instantly understood by any of those determined English females who shouted "Votes for Women!" in unlikely places at embarrassing moments, and continued to shout until hauled to the police station. No Surrender is the story of some of the Suffragettes' goings-on, and of the taking-off of one of their younger and prettier members...
...hard-driven pony of Poloist H, W, ("Rube") Williams (international squad) stumbled against the boundary boards of a San Mateo, Calif, polo field, leaped clean through a crowded spectators' box, felled one man in transit, crashed into two parked autos. Poloist Williams hurt his knee...