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Connie Mack remained at his party an hour and a half, delightedly chatting with some of his old players: Jimmy Dykes (now manager of the Chicago White Sox), Herb Pennock, Chief Bender, Rube Waiberg, Howard Ehmke. Then he quietly thanked them all, made a short speech and rode back to his Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder...
...batters, one less than the modern major-league record he shares with Dizzy Dean; at Cleveland. This is the second time within a year that young Feller, whose arm has been ailing all summer, has equalled or broken the American League strikeout record of 16, set by Rube Waddell 29 years...
...scene in which Jack Benny out-gabs such topflight illustrators as McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, Arthur William Brown and John LaGatta before getting back as good as he gives from wry Rube Goldberg...
...higher rating for efficiency. Most startling of the many pitching statistics that prove Hubbell the ablest member of his profession currently performing was his record, started last July, of winning 24 league games in a row. Closest approach to this record was made in 1911-12 by Rube Marquard who won 20 straight games...
Standing on an open plot in Manhattan near Madison Avenue and 59th Street in the early 1890s was a mechanical contraption that would have been an inspiration to Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. Snaked around the plot in a vast maze of loops, twists and double turns were several miles of pipe, through which was pumped a grimy mixture of water and pulverized coal. Purpose was to demonstrate the possibilities of pumping coal from the mines, an idea which was pronounced feasible in its day by men like Frick and Carnegie, and won an award at the Chicago World's Fair...