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...Miami Beach a week later, the final of which will determine the outboard champion. Climax of the regatta will be a race at Miami between big inboard motorboats - Italy's 12-litre class against U. S. Gold Cup craft, like Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VI, John Shibe's new Miss Philadelphia, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy...
...League) whip the Philadelphia Athletics (American League). Not till the game was over did he learn of the sudden death of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (see below), though thousands of radio listeners heard Graham McNamee interrupt his play by play description of the game to flash the news. Leaving Shibe Park, a bulletin was handed to President Hoover. Secretary Theodore Joslin spoke for him: "The President is greatly shocked. . . . He will enlarge on that statement when he returns to Washington." ¶ Prior to leaving for his Rapidan camp last weekend, President Hoover breakfasted with Bernard Mannes Baruch, wisest of Democrats...
President Hoover began his journeys last week by going to Philadelphia to watch the Athletics beat the St. Louis Cardinals in their initial world series game (see p. 42). As he entered Shibe Park, "Hail to the Chief" was played for him, on a phonograph. Because not enough seats had been reserved, 17 out of the 56 in his party had to sit in the stone aisles. The President took seat No. 4 in his box. Five members of the Cabinet clustered close...
Gabby Street, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, yet perhaps Street felt after ward that he had been foolish in saying that and letting it come out in the papers where Mack could read it. While the crowd in Shibe Park, Philadelphia, was watching the teams at infield practice and President Hoover marched in with his party, Robert Moses Grove was warming up and a few minutes later the loudspeaker announced that he would pitch...
...informed by Owner William Wrigley Jr. that Rogers Hornsby would take his place next year. "I must have a winner," said Owner Wrigley, who was less disgruntled by the showing of his team this season than by their failure to beat the Athletics in the last world series. In Shibe Park in Philadelphia?home of Connie Mack's Athletics, who had been sure of the American League pennant for many weeks?electricians were getting ready for the world series by installing the telegraph master- switchboard that was used in the Hall-Mills murder trial (TIME...