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As printed: ALEXANDER HURLS CARDINALS TO EVEN PLANE WITH YANKS
ContextThe World Series is the best-of-seven championship between the winners of the American and National League pennants; Rogers Hornsby plays second base for the Cardinals as well as managing them, Babe Ruth is the Yankees' outfielder, and Grover Cleveland Alexander, a pitcher in the major leagues since 1911, came to St. Louis from the Chicago Cubs during this season. A spitball is a pitch moistened by the pitcher, outlawed in 1920 except for a few named men allowed to keep throwing it.
As printed: RESCUE PARTIES MAKING PLANS TO SEARCH FOR MEN
ContextRockwood is a coal and iron town in east Tennessee, where the Roane Iron Company works the mines. State mine inspectors were officials charged with enforcing safety law underground, and gas and coal dust were the usual causes of mine explosions.
ContextHarry M. Daugherty was attorney general under President Harding and Thomas W. Miller the alien property custodian, the official who held property seized from enemy nationals during the World War, including shares of the American Metal Company. Richard Merton is the German financier who pressed the company's claim; Max D. Steuer is Daugherty's counsel and William Rand is Miller's.
As printed: Thousands Forced To Leave Homes in Flooded Mid-West
ContextA levee is an earthen embankment built to hold a river out of the land behind it; Beardstown, Illinois, sits on the Illinois River, which joins the Mississippi above St. Louis. The tri-state lead region lies where Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma meet.
As printed: D. C. Police Will Stop Tin Can Wedding Parties
ContextThe District of Columbia's police force is headed by a superintendent and answers to the federal government rather than an elected mayor. Tying tin cans to the back of a departing couple's automobile was a standard wedding send-off.
The third game is at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis on Tuesday, with Reinhart or Haines against Hoyt or Ruether, while the rescue party at Rockwood goes down after the men.
