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...baseball pitcher strikeouts are what homeruns are to a batter-an indication of letter-perfect efficiency. Last week, when 38-year-old Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove of the Boston Red Sox struck out six batters in a game with the Detroit Tigers, he: i) won his third consecutive game of the current season and the 260th of his 14-year career in the American League, 2) pitched his team from third to second place in the pennant race, 3) benched himself in the lofty niche reserved for pitchers who have passed the 2,000-strikeout mark...
Only six major-leaguers in the long history of U. S. baseball had attained that niche before Lefty Grove: Walter Johnson (3,497 strikeouts in 21 years), Cy Young (2,836), Christy Mathewson (2,447). Rube Waddell (2,369), Grover Cleveland Alexander (2,184), Dazzy Vance...
...overhearing somebody else-apparently in the old West there was an eavesdropper crouching behind every clump of sage brush. Also like most Zane Grey stories, the newest one begins with a bang. Hiding out after killing a man, tall, grey-eyed Laramie Nelson observes some gunmen ride into his grove, tie a rope around the neck of a 20-year- old cowboy and throw it over the branch of a tree. "I cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends...
BASEBALL--The Red Sox came from behind to tie the score in the seventh inning and then defeated the Detroit Tigers 4 to 3 in the 10th, as Lofty Grove copped his third straight win of the season. Out in St. Louis the Boston Bees were defeated by the Cardinals 3 to 2. Other scores--American: New York 5, St. Louis 1. Philadelphia 7, Chicago 3, Cleveland 10, Washington 9, National: Cincinnati 10, New York 2, Brooklyn 7, Pitisburgh 2, Chicago 5, Philadelphia...
...Boston's Red Sox Mack Said, "Boston has a good team and it is getting better all the time. Lefty Grove looks better than at any time since he left the Athletics. I expect the Red Sox to show a very strong drive for the pennant...