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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baseball, ''National Pastime" (largest commercialized sport), passed its mid-season mark in the Big Leagues. Familiar to "fans,"* many a fact about the 1929 season has now become visible to laymen...
There is no argument but that the game has changed since "Home Run" Baker mad? his name by knocking 12 homeruns during the season of 1913. "Babe" Ruth knocked 60 in 1927. Young Outfielder Klein had hit 29 this season up to last weekend. In the old days, the good aver age hitter batted about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs...
...Pennant Race. In the American League, the Philadelphia "Athletics" are so far ahead of the New York "Yankees" that they appear almost certain winners. Last year Connie Mack (Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy) 66-year-old manager of the Athletics, just missed winning the pennant, probably lost it by starting the season with oldsters Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins in his lineup.† About the middle of the season, Manager Mack put in youngsters, made up much lost ground. This year he has had his youngsters-notably Jimmy Foxx, Gordon Cochrane, Al Simmons-in action all year, and with superlative...
Philharmonic Travels. Next spring, between the close of Manhattan's symphony season (April 20) and Arturo Toscanini's engagement for the 1930 Bayreuth Festival (July), Mr. Toscanini will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on a European tour similar in time and locale to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's tour (TIME, July...
Gahagan. From Czechoslovakia came a despatch hailing Helen Gahagan, U. S. actress, as "outstanding American success of the Continental opera season." She had sung Tosca at Moravska-Ostrava well enough to be invited to perform in the Salzburg Festspiel, to sing Tosca, Thais and Manon at Bad Reichenhall and in Vienna. Miss Gahagan began taking her voice seriously only one year ago. On the U. S. stage ("Second Ethel Barrymore") she played in Manhattan (1922), Trelawney of the Wells, Young Woodley, The Enchanted April, The Sapphire Ring...