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...taste for theories and computations common to all baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing a pitcher, or three pitchers, since they had one-Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong in the box, ragged afield, indifferent at bat; Chicago, lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston in seventh place, apparently hopeless, but having one great player, perhaps the greatest in the National League...
There a member of Lord Irwin's sinewy entourage told with a grin how the Viceroy had passed en route through the territory of the insignificant and torpid Rajah of Jubbal. Polite surprise that the Englishmen had ventured so far afield to hunt was the Potentate's first reaction. But when informed that they had left their sporting guns behind and were merely out for exercise, the Rajah of Jubbal became morose, evinced incredulity, and was clearly worried as to possible designs upon his little raj by a snooping Big White Viceroy...
Besides the fact that the opposing pitching did little to restrain the scoring orgy, the playing of the Bowdoin nine afield did much to aid the Crimson cause Seven miscues, most of them costly, were marked up against the losers...
...week before. Mr. Wiggin's Chase Securities Corp. formed the $10,000,000 Finance Company of great Britain and America Ltd. with Sir Alfred Moritz Mond's Imperial Chemical Industries (TIME, April 23). Both transactions enable U. S. capital to flow to England, and thence farther afield...
...Pennypacker, who was for several years before taking over his present post, headmaster of the Boston Latin School, has taken similar trips in connection with his University duties, but this year's trip will be longer and will carry him further afield than any of the others. So far as is known, his visit to Honolulu will be the first made to the Islands by any member of the Harvard Faculty in his official capacity...