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Fourth Game. Having won the first game and lost the second in St. Louis, and lost the third in Philadelphia, Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") of the Philadelphia Athletics was faced with a familiar but difficult problem : who should pitch? As usual, he failed to reveal his solution of the...
GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK New York City
MY FLESH AND BLOOD-George Sylvester Viereck-Liveright ($3). Before the U. S. entered the War George Sylvester Viereck laid the foundations for his subsequent unpopularity by editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson'...
Died-Sylvester Baker Sadler, 54, justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court since 1921; of pneumonia; in Carlisle, Pa.
Sixth Game. Connie Mack calmly walked out of the dugout and went upstairs to his private office overlooking a street crowded with Philadelphia baseball fans going home to supper. "While this victory does give me my fifth world championship," said he, "I don't think the credit should come...