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Shrewd, humble, honest and prodigiously rotund, Wilbert Robinson has been manager of the Brooklyn Baseball team, named for him "the Robins," since 1913. Before that, as catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, most celebrated team in baseball history, he once bit off an injured thumb so he could finish a game. Last week, the directors of the Brooklyn Club, possibly the most valuable property in the National League, decided they needed a new manager, selected one Maximillian Carnarius ("Max Carey"), onetime Pittsburgh outfielder...
...friend Joe Forecast in the Press Box last Saturday and we had a little talk about the week's games. I'm afraid the old boy, whose mind is a bit weak these days, may have influenced me by his sentimental appeals to his former "greatness." He used to be considered great until people realized the power of oriental methods in prognosticating, no doubt about that...
...Little Racketeer," the current production at the Shubert Theater, is just another musical comedy. It has little to recommend it for anything but a pleasant entertainment save a bit of excellent work by the orchestra...
...Fiddle is a tuneful concert by Jerome Kern which frames a little love story by Librettist Otto Har-bach. The scene, a bit on the lush side and pleasingly so, is laid in Brussels and Louvain' where Miss Bettina Hall and George S. Metaxa, two musicians, alternately fall in & out of each other's arms until the final curtain...
...does want to talk a bit about Texas. It is only upon rare occasions that a team from the far flung regions of the west comes here to Cambridge. Harvard today has one of her rare opportunities to play the gracious host to an institution that has travelled three thousand miles to play a fine, hard game. It has also the chance to learn what manner of men come out of the west...