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...companions. Any moment a shell might explode, but most of the firing had ceased after 48 hours. Here a marine sifted, and as the grit drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied an exploding arsenal with water buckets. Little metal knicknacks were pondered on with shrugging shoulders...
Last week in Brooklyn he gave Jack Delaney a return match-15 rounds to a decision. The cold eyes glinted slow malice; the pale, hairy body moved forward, paused, swayed, moved forward. In the fifth round one of Delaney's whizzing fists dropped Berlenbach to one knee. Berlenbach arose and moved forward with Delaney dancing in and out and more fists whizzing, now to Berlenbach's crushed nose, now to his gloomy mouth, now to his heaving midriff. None of Berlenbach's long, stiff blows were steered anywhere near dancing Delaney. At the end, the referee...
...heavy-hitting team whereas an excellent pitcher may lack support from his inferior team. However, Pennock and Shocker (also of the Yankees), and Rhem and Meadows (Pittsburgh) have demonstrated sterling capabilities. The famed and aged Walter Johnson of Washington has skidded woefully, as has once great Dazzy Vance of Brooklyn...
...National League Winners: 1919 Cincinnati ...Cincinnati led on July 4 1920 Brooklyn ... New York led on July 4 1921 New York... New York led on July 4 1922 New York ... New York led on July 4 1923 New York... New York led on July 4 1924 New York ... New York led on July 4 1925 Pittsburgh ... Pittsburgh led on July 4 American League Winners: 1919 Chicago... New York led on July 4 1920 Cleveland ... Cleveland led on July 4 1921 New York... Cleveland led on July 4 1922 New York ... St. Louis led on July 4 1923 New York...
Ambulances conveyed dismembered bodies to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to lie beside the victims...