"Coach Wares and Card Players/Coach Buzzy Wares of Cardinals (extreme right) shown with group players at St. Petersburg. From left, Ernie White, Murry Dickson, Elwin Roe, Eddie Lake, Martin Marion and Bill DeLancey."
"Cincinnati, Aug. 19 - Cards Hammer at Reds' Lead - The big-bat boys of the flying Cardinals came to town today seeking to hammer the edge off Cincinnati's 5 1/2 game lead as the ball clubs headed down the National League stretch. Here are (L to R) John Mize, first baseman; Don Padgett, catcher, and Enos Slaughter, right fielder. Mize, who took the batting lead from Morrie Arnovich of the
"Cincinnati, Aug. 19 - Young Hurlers Aid Cardinals - Winning 17 out of the last 19 games, the St. Louis Cardinals looked like a hot club as the Red Birds came here today for a series with the league-leading Reds. The young pitchers have played a big part in the stretch drive which carried the club to within 5 1/2 games of the leaders. Three of the youngsters, shown above left to right, are Robert
"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
"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."
"Moving Toward Revolution/Russia, one of the first countries into World War I, was one of four empires destroyed at its end. Defeated by the Germans, Russia erupted in revolution in the fall of 1918. After Lenin took over, Russia surrendered. A new world power had come into being. Here, during the war, Russian troops move through a snowy street in a town in Poland. Exact location and date of