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After the second game of the World Series last week, a wag remarked that it looked like a Two-Buck Series. Heroes of the first two games were two Bucks: Detroit's Buck Newsom and Cincinnati's Bucky Walters...
...opener, held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, Buck Newsom was selected as the starting pitcher against Paul Derringer. Derringer is probably the smartest pitcher in baseball. But Buck Newsom, also known as Old Bo-Bo and The Old Showboat, was not alarmed. A cocky, 32-year-old righthander who had roamed the major leagues for ten years but had never wound up on a pennant-winning team, Newsom had told the baseball world before the season started that he would pitch Detroit into winning this year's American League pennant...
...CINCINNATI--After 21 years, the Cincinnati Reds won their second World's Championship, by conquering the Detroit Tigers 2-1 in the dramatic, nerve-tingling seventh game, which saw Big Paul Derringer triumph over swashbuckling Bobo Newsom...
Died. Marguerite Clark, 53, onetime silent cinemactress; of pneumonia, after five days' illness; in Manhattan. Cincinnati-born, she co-starred at 15 with De Wolf Hopper. She appeared in Victor Herbert's famed Babes in Toyland and in 1915 went to Hollywood to make such films as Snow White and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Peer of Mary Pickford, fairy-like (4 ft. 10 in.) Marguerite Clark retired in 1920, wed Harry Palmerston Williams, late (1936), wealthy, Louisiana cypress heir and maker of fast Wedell-Williams airplanes. Said she of her career: "I knew enough...
...rose from 10 to a whopping 20%. A jittery Apartment House Owners Association frightened the city out of accepting a $2,500,000 United States Housing Authority grant for a slum-clearance project. In Detroit, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, rents looked about the same as last year. In Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Omaha, they were a modest...