Alexander the Great

Grover Cleveland Alexander, 42, oldtime National League baseball pitcher, stalked last week to the pitcher's box in Baker Field, Philadelphia. It was the eighth inning of the second game of a double-header between Philadelphia and St. Louis. Philadelphia had won the first game. Philadelphia was leading now, 9 to 8. Philadelphia, for whom he had pitched well for seven years, had in 1918 released Pitcher Alexander to Chicago, whence in 1926 he went to St. Louis. But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded to do by holding Philadelphia scoreless for four innings while his St. Louis clubmates made three more runs. It was Pitcher Alexander's 373rd winning game in his National League career, breaking the longstanding League record of the late great Christopher Mathewson (New York "Giants").

At Cleveland, Batsman George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of the New York Yankees propelled the 500th home run of his American League career. To a country youth who retrieved the ball he gave $20 and a new ball autographed.