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First Game. Connie Mack chose his ablest pitcher, Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove. Gabby Street started Paul Derringer, the youngest pitcher on the St. Louis team. No pitcher in his first major league season had ever started in a World Series game before. It was a daring move that might have disconcerting effect and, as Grove was likely to win anyway, there was little to be lost in trying it. For two innings, it appeared that the strategy had been brilliant. In the warm, bright afternoon, the crowd that filled Sportsman's Park chortled and cheered; a hog-caller...
...third inning, the Athletics got their first hit, a single by Jimmy Dykes which bounced off the glove of low Third Baseman High. Then Dibrell Williams, new Philadelphia shortstop, made a single that sent Dykes to third. Grove struck out and Dykes was thrown out when Bishop hit a weak grounder. The next man up, George ("Mule") Haas, knocked a double into left field that scored one run and left two on base. Young Paul Derringer mopped his face with a handkerchief. The stands were so quiet that when a man in the grandstand coughed, the Philadelphia coach at first...
...press dispatch from abroad gives another instance of the prevailing simplicity and sincerity of the German people as shown in their choice of a national war memorial. Near Weimar, the geographical center of the German nation, a great grove of the sort that is peculiarly the pride of Germany has been agreed upon by all the states for this purpose. From this tract, typically primitive yet orderly as German forests are, landscape architects are to carve out a monument more expressive of the German spirit than all the fine phrases of conventional inscriptions on polished stone. Taking nothing for granted...
...Mule") Haas. They still have a powerful offense, headed by Catcher Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, First-baseman James Emory ("Jimmy") Foxx, Outfielder Aloysius ("Al") Simmons, and the best pitching staff in either league. Best right-hander is George Livingston Earnshaw, Swarthmore graduate (1923). Best left-hander is Robert Moses Grove, who last week won his 30th victory of the season, an American League record. Pitcher Grove tied another American League record in mid-season by winning 16 games...
...Constance May, an oldtime actress. Carried into court on a chair last week, this ancient dame, alert of eye, answered questions with the dramatic articulation of the 1860 stage. She stuck to her contention that the father of her grandchild was James Cannon, property man at the old Grove Street Theatre, San Francisco. Garrulous, she insisted on telling how she had shaken President Lincoln's hand in Ford's Theatre, Washington. When the plaintiff's counsel John Taaffe tried to cross examine her she screamed at 84-year-old Superior Judge George H. Buck: "I want protection...