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Flint Rhem, pitching for the Cardinals ?the same Rhem who recently said that he had been kidnapped, forced to drink hard liquor for two days?got through the first and second innings all right except for Cochrane's drive and a run batted in by Foxx. But in the...
The Cardinals have no one with Grove's control, but they have Wild Bill Hallahan who throws the ball with blinding speed and has the knack of winning games. They have Burleigh Grimes, greatest of the spitball school, an opportunist, a fine money-player. They have such able right-handers...
Died. Oliver Sylvester Hershman, 71. oldtime Pittsburgh publisher; after an illness of three weeks; at Pittsburgh. In 1873, Publisher Hershman started on the Evening Telegraph. He acquired a majority interest, merged the Telegraph with the Chronicle, published the combine as the Chronicle-Telegraph until 1900 when he bought The Press...
At Columbus, Ohio, Ambrose Moss, 31, brawny Negro, was committed last week for the third time to the State Hospital for the Insane. With a table he smashed the skulls of Sylvester Shannon, 27, and Frank T. Wilson, 52, both inmates. Attendants broke his neck.
Before Magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino in Brooklyn, N. Y., one day last week stood David Weiss, 17, U. S. Junior Communist Leaguer, charged with soliciting alms for textile strikers.