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Three million New York Straphangers hung as usual last week. The subway strike of some 700 "keymen" (motormen and switchmen) had practically failed. Herman A. Metz, one of the three public representatives of the Interborough directorate, refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats...
...young players who are performing distinguishedly, large shambling Babe Herman (left handed first baseman for Brooklyn) and swarthy agile Anthony Lazzeri (second baseman of the Yankees) are perhaps the most conspicuous. Both have done well as homerun hitters. A week ago, Herman led the National League in batting...
...Herman , Brooklyn .377 Bressler , Cincinnati .376 Traynor , Pittsburgh .347 Cuyler , Pittsburgh .343 Hornsby , St . Louis...
From Oyster Bay, Long Island, to Oslo, Norway, sailed the Lanai, a boat six metres (not quite 20 ft.) long, frail as an egg. It sailed in the hold of an ocean liner and when, in Oslo, Owner Herman Whiton saw its burlap wrappings undone and the racing sails taken out of their boxes, his boat was as dry as when it started. He had brought it over to win the Norwegian gold cup and this, after three days of racing and after having been disqualified in one race, it did, beating a yacht owned by Crown Prince Olaf
...Herman N. Bundesen, M. D., of the Chicago department of health, issued a bulletin last week which contained an interesting fact and an atrocious example of medical wit. The fact concerned conjugality: married men live longer than single men, longer than divorced men. Dr. Bundesen supported this statement with statistics gathered from four groups, arranged according to age. Then, by way of summary, he offered the sample of his** humor...