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...secretary was instructed to bring in little slips of paper and put them on President Hoover's desk last week. Curious visitors saw that they were inning-by-inning returns from the World Series baseball games in St. Louis. For the third game the President trained to Philadelphia, threw in the first ball (and got it back as a souvenir), watched the St. Louis Cardinals (National League) whip the Philadelphia Athletics (American League). Not till the game was over did he learn of the sudden death of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (see below), though thousands of radio listeners heard...
...snatch and steal, rather than any motive of politics or protest seemed to inflame the mob. At the Gallowgate, where the famous Battle of the Butts occurred in 1544, heads were bloodied. Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court complaining bitterly that...
...statue's sword, the sapphires from the eyes, the gold leaf that clothed all. In doing this, the swallow stayed north too long. Winter came and the swallow died of cold. The Prince's heart cracked. The Town Councillors, squabbling over the Prince's metal body. threw the heart and the small dead bird on an ash heap from which an angel carried them to heaven...
...Blue also opens its season today in the Bowl against the University of Maine. Able Booth only lacks one man of having an all-veteran team. Last season the Orono stalwarts were crushed by the Elis, chiefly because Coach Brice threw nearly his whole strength into the opening period and was swamped towards the end of the game. All Harvard rooters will watch with interest the debut of practically the same Blue team which the Crimson took into camp last year to the tune of 13 to 0, and which they hope will be polished off this season...
...selection from 32 teams in & around New York City, was attended by a crowd of 25,000 whooping, yelling Irishmen who shouted loudest when they saw a broken head. They nearly saw one in the first seconds of the game. When Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany Hall threw in the first ball, he was instantly surrounded by a swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys. Boss Curry, who used to be a sprinter, scampered to the sidelines uninjured. Martin Kennedy, called "the man in the hat" because he always wears one, and considered the finest...