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...have been given at the Metropolitan, but the 38 citizens had come to hear basso Joseph T. MacPherson sing the part of the King, and Joseph T. MacPherson was absent. Four years ago Basso MacPherson sang in a home talent benefit show to buy bats and balls for a sandlot ball-team on which he played. Singing teachers heard him, advised him to cultivate his voice. He gave a concert in Atlanta. Otto Kahn, visiting there, heard him, gave him a year's contract with the Metropolitan. The King...
...text-books and slide rules to make the journey. Before the encounter with Yale here during commencement week, this year's team has arranged several minor games. H. T. Dunker '25, the manager of the P. B. K. team, announced last night that he is seeking encounters with other sandlot teams and solicits challenges...
Honus ("Hans") Wagner, onetime Pittsburgh baseball Titan, has entered politics. Last week, large placards appeared about Pittsburgh bear- ing the words: FOR SHERIFF*−J. HANS WAGNER. There was a picture of Honus in the uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Each spring, Wagner once more dons his uniform, plays "sandlot" ball. If the sheriffalty does not prevent, he is expected to play this year with the "Elks" of the Allegheny County (Pa.) League...
...consecutive seasons. He holds the U. S. base-stealing record of 96 in 1915, has stolen more bases than any man in baseball with the exception of one Billy Hamilton. Cobb is cut to a different last than Sisler. No decorous college graduate he, but a "sandlot" player, a man of fiery mettle. Often-ihc bleachers, true to the tradition of U. S. sportsmanship, have risen in enthusiastic uproar while Cobb stood shoving his jaw-fare nearer and nearer to an umpire's quivering countenance, uttering words whose import could only be guessed by his furious gestures...
...nation to the temporary piling up of events during a war. Look at a history of Norman England written in the present style. The Battle of Crecy is laid out, a decisive battle, to be sure, but as bare of any imagination stimulating incident as a scrimmage between two sandlot football team. The picturesque is gone; there is nothing of the blind king of Bohemia charging into battle among his knight, or the stand of the English archers against wave after wave of the French chivalry. All of this is unessential from the modernist point of view. The student will...