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Fourth Game, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, the 65-year-old bon vivant who owns the Yankees, cannot bear his team to lose, cannot bear to watch a close game, let alone a close World Series. Even to win in four straight games is too close for him until the fourth game is won. He begged his men to win last Sunday and end his terrible suspense. The Yankees obliged with all the trimmings...
Chicago had torn Col. Ruppert's heartstrings with four runs in the first inning off young pitcher Johnny Allen. After that the rumble and crash of Yankee bats made 17 hits, discouraged four Chicago pitchers. In the first, the side-whiskered Bush was knocked out of the box; in the third. Lazzeri smashed a homerun over the right field bleacher screen scoring two runs; in the sixth. Gehrig singled for two runs; in the seventh five hits made four more runs; and in the ninth, when the Yankees were four runs ahead, they made four more, two on Lazzeri...
...best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer and owner of the New York Yankees (see p. 20), if winning baseball championships had given him his biggest thrills in life. Replied the Colonel: "Yes and no. . . . Looking back now I doubt if I ever felt more elated than when I was a youngster and on occasions would...
Birthdays. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn (75), Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt (71), Jacob Ruppert (65), Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder (62), Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard (61), Haakon VII of Norway (60), Herbert Clark Hoover (58), Ethel Barrymore (53), the Duchess of York...
About a month ago Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer, tycoon and owner of the New York "Yankees," estimated that all in all the brewing industry would spend some $200,000,000 in rehabilitation, if & when. His own company's requirements, he said, would be $5,000,000. Ready to board the beer wagon last week was Louis J. Ehret, son af the late Brewer George Ehret. He incorporated a new George Ehret Brewing Co., to be all ready...