"Pepper Fouls/Dismay was written over Pepper Martin's face (Left) as he popped out a foul ball during a practice session at the St. Louis Cardinals spring training camp, at St. Petersburg, Fla., March 2. Behind the plate is Sam Narron, rookie catcher who came up from Rochester."
"Hi There! Redbird!/Decked out in his new St. Louis Cardinals uniform, rookie infielder Morris Sturdy, up from Rochester, goes up in the air during a Cardinal practice session at St. Petersburg, Fla., March 2. He is from Kirkwood, Mo., age 24, and last year hit .299."
"Glad to see you, Joe/Manager Ray Blades (left) of the St. Louis Cardinals, welcomes Joe Medwick back into the fold March 22 after the star outfielder quit being a holdout and signed his 1939 contract. After a workout in the Cards' St. Petersburg, Fla., spring training camp, Medwick declared he was in great shape for the coming season."
"Rookies on the Catch/Running after pop-up balls during a workout at the St. Louis Cardinals spring training camp, St. Petersburg, Fla., March 3 was this trio of rookie catchers, L. to R.: Sam Narron, of Rochester; Herbert Bremer, of St. Louis; and Charles Zachritz, of Fostoria, Ohio."
"Coach Clyde Wares of the St. Louis Cardinals is shown with Dick Sisler, son of George Sisler, Famous St. Louis Browns star; Joe Orengo, rookie shortstop from Sacramento, Calif.; Morton Cooper, pitcher from Houston, Tex., and Stuart Martin, regular second baseman, as they took the field for an unofficial workout one day ahead of the scheduled opening of the Cardinals' training season at Waterfront Park here recently. Left to right: Coach Wares, Sisler, Orengo, Cooper and Martin."
"Harmony, of a sort, was added to the Chamber of Commerce annual baseball dinner last night at Hotel Jefferson with these six Cardinals exercising their vocal chords. From the left: Pitcher Clyde Shoun, Pitcher Bob Weiland, Pitcher Bill McGee, Infielder Frank Crespi, Outfielder Pepper Martin and Pitcher Bob Bowman. Weiland, McGee and Martin were members of the late "Mudcats," a Redbird Music Group."
Long job confronts painters putting a new white coat on the 230-foot stack of the Hardy Salt Company, a landmark for 41 years at 800 South Vandeventer ave. The tapered, reinforced concrete structure is the tallest stack in St. Louis it measures 16 feet 8 inches at the base and 10 feet 10 inches at the top.
"The Yanks Came/Eighty-one days after the United States declared war on Germany, the first regiments of the American Expeditionary Force landed in France, June 26, 1917. Here Yanks from the first convoy line up after debarking at St. Nazaire. The 14 vessels of the convoy carried about 14,500 troops. By the end of World War I Nov. 11, 1918, the Americans had 1.4 million men in France and had
Two photos showing two different moments before American Troops leave Germany. "Above - Major General Henry T. Allen, commanding the last of the American troops in Germany, inspects his men before they embark on the transport St. Mihiel for home. General Allen is directly in the center. Below - American soldiers entrain at Coblenz, bid their German wives farewell, if only for a short time. The women went to the port of embarkation on a separate train."
"The American troops marching through Coblenz to entrain for the embarkation port, where they boarded the transport St. Mihiel, the streets were lined with a guard of French troops, who took over control of the city after the departure of the Americans. There were many tear dimmed eyes among the hundreds of Natives who lined the streets to wave farewell to the American boys with whom they had become fast friends."
"First Photos of American Troops Leaving Coblenz for Home./French civil and military authorities at Coblenz tribute to the American troops leaving the city for the U.S. photo shows the last of the American troops passing through the square for final review."
"These Marines in France are learning to adjust their gas masks quickly. It takes only a few seconds to get the mask in place. When the siren blows every mask is put on as speedily as possible as a second of delay might be serious. The Germans are reported to be perfuming their gas so as to deceive the Americans in the trenches but few of them have been gassed as yet."
"Ready for the Russian Rush/The Germans had better arms and better transportation than the Russians in World War I. Their machine guns devastated the masses of Russians rushing at them in attack. By the end of the first winter one Russian in four went into the field without a gun. Here German infantrymen aim their machine guns at the Russians from a trench at the Vistula River in Russia, in 1916."
"Thanksgiving Harvest, 1943/Thanksgiving, which in more carefree, perhaps more careless, pre-war days meant to many Americans little more than a delicious roast turkey or a thrilling football tussle, will be observed for the second time during World War II next Thursday within an atmosphere of sobriety nearer to the spirit of the early colonists, who after the first harvest in 1621 set aside a