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Exposition visitors who chanced to be in Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam...
First Game. People who had figured that 35-year-old Spitballer Howard Ehmke would work in the series only if every other Philadelphia pitcher was sick or knocked out of the box, did not reckon on an odd understanding between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good...
Olympia and Uptown--"Two Black Crows" with Moran and Mack...
...Wrigley told all the players to have a big evening at his expense; adding that he would not honor any expense account for less than $50. Quieter in manner, taller and thinner in figure, less pretentious but nonetheless admired is Philadelphia's manager and part owner, Cornelius ("Connie Mack") McGillicuddy. He has gained fame through baseball -and baseball alone. He attends every game his Athletics play, invariably sits in the same place in the dugout, seldom raises his voice to command or correct. He last brought an American League pennant to Philadelphia in 1914, has since then watched...
...rumor commenced its rapid spread Saturday evening. the doctor's condition was excellent and he seemed inclined to talk about the impending World's Series which starts in Chicago tomorrow. He intimated that the A's would win the first game by a 4 to 1 count, provided Connie Mack followed the advice he wired him last night and started Rube Walberg on the mound. Otherwise Dr. Huey made it quite clear that he would be in no way responsible for the outcome of the opener and even hinted that he thought it would serve Connie right for trying...