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As printed: CARDS BEAT YANKS BY 10-2 SCORE AND FORCE A 7TH GAME
ContextThe World Series is the best-of-seven championship between the pennant winners of the two major leagues. Rogers Hornsby is the Cardinals' second baseman and manager, Miller Huggins manages the Yankees, and Grover Cleveland Alexander has pitched in the National League since 1911.
As printed: DAUGHERTY JURORS REPORT DEADLOCK; SENT BACK AGAIN
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. Julian W. Mack is the federal judge presiding and Emory R. Buckner the United States Attorney in New York; a jury that cannot reach agreement can be sent back to deliberate further rather than discharged.
As printed: CHINESE ARMISTICE URGED BY KELLOGG
ContextWuchang is a walled city on the south bank of the Yangtse, across the river from Hankow in central China, besieged for weeks by the Cantonese armies of the Nationalist movement as they march north against the war lords. Frank B. Kellogg is the American Secretary of State, and a consul general is the United States officer stationed in a foreign city to look after American interests there.
As printed: "PEACHES" CALLED REAL LOVEMAKER
ContextEdward W. Browning is a wealthy New York real estate man who married Frances "Peaches" Heenan this spring, a match the papers have followed closely because of the difference in their ages.
As printed: THREE NEGROES SHOT TO DEATH BY MOB AFTER "NOT GUILTY" VERDICT
ContextAiken is a town in western South Carolina. A lynching is a killing by a mob acting outside the law; the verdict referred to came at a murder trial there the day before.
The seventh game at the Yankee Stadium decides the championship, and Judge Mack will be at the jury's call from 10 o'clock this morning.