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Second Game. In the 12th inning, large-nosed Leon ("Goose") Goslin of Detroit cracked out a hit that did more than win the game, 3-to-2. It made a hero of Detroit's Pitcher Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe who, after giving the Cardinals two runs in the first three innings, had given them only one hit in the nine that followed...
Twenty-two years old, 6 ft., 4 in. tall, Schoolboy Rowe's achievement climaxed a season in which he had already distinguished himself by winning 16 consecutive games. At New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., James Mutrie, one of the organizers of major-league baseball in New York, was so impressed by Rowe's size and prowess that he told reporters how he had come to nickname the New York team "Giants" in 1888: "All the players were tall that year. One day I looked out on the field and shouted: 'You're giants in size and you're giants...
...whose warlike traditions and glories will be re-evoked." Besides drilling, 20 hours of the high-school year will be devoted to military history (the Fascist version of Italy's part in the War): map reading, the organization and duties of the various branches of the service. No schoolboy may be promoted to a higher class or receive a degree unless he passes his military science "with profit." At 18 a schoolboy becomes part of the Fascist militia and is given training in specialized branches of the service...
Said the Detroit Tigers' strapping Pitcher Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe: "Hello, Maw!" Said Mrs. Ruby Rowe McGlothin: "If you ever call me 'Maw' again, I'll whip you sure...
...Philadelphia Athletics: 13-to-5, against the Detroit Tigers; the baseball game which broke 22-year-old Pitcher Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe's string of victories, after he tied the American League record with 16 in a row (TIME, Sept. 3); at Philadelphia...