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...telegram asking for a home run. The appeal was exactly the sort of thing to appeal to Ruth's theatrical, large, and warmly human temper. "As soon as I knocked my first run," he said, "I thought to myself: 'There's one for the sick kid.' ' Before the day was over he had knocked two more and accounted for five runs. Rallying their bats behind him, the listless Yankees hammered out salvos of singles and doubles. Score: New York, 10; St. Louis...
...undertake to make Shakespeare acceptable to the masses by rewriting him in the language of a New York east-sider. For 'To be, or not to be: that is the question,' let us say 'Yer for it or yer ain't, j'get me kid...
...Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle responded from the water. She swam the first four miles in three hours and had a drink of beef juice. The band played Yes, We HAVE No Bananas. Miss Cannon got into the water and swam for an hour; Miss Ederle...
...only taxes he lays upon his readers touch their credulity (he insists in the preface that all he tells has occurred in sober fact) and their squeamishness. Here is specimen Wren carnage: "It was no moment for kid-gloved warfare nor the niceties of chivalrous fighting, and I drove my sword through the back of one man who was in the very act of yelling, 'Hack the -in pieces and throw her to the dogs,' and I cut halfway through the neck of another ... as I wheeled about, I laid one black throat open to see the bone...
Last week there were two championship fights - one won by the challenger, the other by the cham pion. Featherweight. In Hartford, Conn., a small ugly Jew, Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, champion, struck a small ugly Latin, Robert Garcia, chal lenger, in the ribs with his fist and knocked him down. The Italian got up. Kaplan administered a long left hook. The Italian fell down, got up. Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed...