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Having clinched the pennant, the Cubs proceeded to beat the Cards once more thus prolonging to 21 games the longest major-league winning streak since the Giants were undefeated for 26 in a row in 1916. Then the Cubs coasted through ie season's last two games, benching four regulars to rest them for the World Series against Detroit, on which betting opened 4-t05 with Detroit the favorite...
...their rating in fourth place. In August the Giants went into a sudden decline for the second year in a row and the Cardinals caught up with them. The Cubs by this time were in third place but still nobody took them seriously as pennant contenders until their winning streak started early in September...
...hitter is a huge, red-faced Irishman who has been with the Cubs since 1922. Lon Warneke a lanky, hay-pitching, coon-hunting 26-year-old from Arkansas, is the right-handed ace of the pitching staff (Warneke, French, Root, Lee), which rotated with rhythmic brilliance through their winning streak. At the start of the season, Manager Grimm was the Cubs' regular first baseman. Nineteen-year-old Phil Cayarretta, one year out of a North Side Chicago high school, played the position so well that Manager Grimm let him keep it. He, Third-Baseman Stanley Hack, Outfielders Augie Galan...
Then in a later interview with a New York Herald Tribune correspondent the North Dakota Senator revealed a hidden streak of old-fashioned imperialism that amazed his countrymen and embarrassed an Administration which boasts a "good neighbor" foreign policy. Senator Nye spoke frankly of intervention: "The constitutional Government replacing the Mendieta de facto Administration must quickly recognize this important obligation to U. S. investors, and if it fails to do so, the U. S. will surely take charge of collection...
...evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They suffer their humiliations at the hands of white men with impassive reserve, love their wives & children, misbehave only when a wild streak comes to the surface in the memory of past greatness, or in an unyielding desire for savage revenge. Although Oliver La Farge's stories of them, when analyzed, prove to be written around oldfashioned, commonplace plots of undying love or hate, they have the distinction of making Indian rites...