Life — September 10, 1925 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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22 DAILY LIFE OUR NATIONAL SPORT ——> PICTURES* PRIZES* PUNCE )} Tl aes) Oo a ATLANTIC CITY CONTEST By Roth BEAUTY | La IW, ee ; G IANTS LOS E Leaders Tighten Grip (Special to DAILY LIFE) As Pennant Goal Nears Boston, Mass.—Standing at the edge of the precipice with his back to the wall and only his stout right arm barring the door against the onrushing wolves, which hurtled crisis upon crisis in his teeth, Jack Bayou, Boston’s veteran pitching ace, picked up the gauntlet this afternoon and lance a-couch in this crucial series By SID GULCH As the sixteen major league clubs round into the stretch and race toward pennantdom, optimism reigns in the rival camps. ‘Whoever beats the Giants,” said McGraw today, “will know they’ve been in a fight.” charged the Augean stable. Heedless of the Old Man of the Sea clinging to him, facing his Wa- terloo and, like the Old Guard, refusing to sur- render, he turned rout in- i to victory, pull- ing the chest- Queen Marie nuts from the fire with Machiavellian skill, so that when the sun sank west- ward in a blaze of glory, it cast the ruddy halo of triumph about the stalwart form of this Bal- boa, high upon a peak in Da- rien, where the waters of eter- nal youth flowed gallantly be- neath. The score by innings: New York 0000270000 RHE 2700 Boston 0000000028 2811 Ticket Grab Probe Judge Landis is investigating rumors that all tickets for the World Series have fallen into the hands of speculators, who have skipped with them to Eu- rope, where they are sell- ing them as tickets to the Dempsey-Wills fight. “We'll keep this series CLEAN,” said the Judge. SAVE McMURTRIE BOULE- VARD! DRIVE THE SCORCH- ERS OFF OUR STREETS! KEEP OUR YOUNG GIRLS OUT IN THE OPEN AIR! READ DAILY LIFE! 'HERE’S a lotta loose jack lying around down at Bel- mont Park these days. The wise-birds are keeping their eyes peeled. . Apple-sauce! eee What if Big Bill an’ Little Bill an’ Vinnie Richards do co the Davis Cup? They ain’t got anything to put init. . ry * Bologny ! see It looks like Babe Ruth should’ve stayed in the hospital after all. Banana Oil! P| were shrewd ol When asked for a statement, Bill McKechnie just smiled. “They may nose out the Pi- rates at the final gong,” he said, “but they'll know they've been in a fight.” Intense optimism is the order of the day among the hustling Senators. “When they get |through with us,” said Bucky Harris, kid manager and ce sonal friend of President Coo- | lidge, “they'll know they've been in a fight.” “I’m not saying a word,” Connie Mack's words, “but you can tell your | readers that anyone who gets there ahead of the Athletics wil know they’ve been in a fight. |. When interviewed at the Ya- | kee’s club-house, Midget Miller Huggins said, “I know we't been in a fight. But next year as Kipling said, is another story.” comicbooks.com