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...Grew, watched the opening game in which Tokyo University alumni (there are no professional baseballers in Japan) batted for the Empire, after Marquis Okuma, president of the Japan Baseball League, pitched the first ball. When the Babe hit only a single, though his team won 17-to-1, Japanese sportsmen politely said that it must be because Meiji Stadium is so very, very large and their fielders had stood so very, very far back to catch all the Bambino's terrific deliveries. Next day Mr. Ruth again hit only a single. This was harder to explain, for Lou Gehrig...
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...many years a State bird observer and was one of the first sportsmen to recognize the possibilities of the Cape for duck shooting, doing much to popularize the sport around Boston. In his younger days he was well known for his painting of wild life and especially noted for his pictures of water fowl both of which have been on exhibition in many places in the last 30 years...
Defender. Rainbow, unlike 4-year-old Yankee, was built last winter on purpose to defend the America's Cup this year against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Owned by a syndicate which includes four Vanderbilts and 13 other sportsmen, she was called an "economy boat." Fitted with some sails from the 1930 defender. Enterprise, she cost $500,000. She is 126 ft. overall. Her 165-ft. mast is taller than the Brooklyn Bridge...
...corner sat a newshawk for the Swedish sports journal Idrottsbladet, taking down his words. What the reporter thought he heard the Minister say made headlines next day in Idrottsbladet. It was: "Be on your watch. The Swedes are a jealous nation and do not like to see foreign sportsmen triumph. Maribel Vinson [champion U. S. woman figure-skater from 1928 to 1934] was unfairly marked down by the judges, for a Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth for the world championship largely because she skidded...