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Monday, September 28, 193.1.$St. Louis To Make Merry In Celebration of Greatest Pennant Victory In City’s History.ST. LOUIS,. Sept. 28—(AP)—The National League champion cardinals return home today to start tuning up for the Philadelphia Ath-j letics, their world series opponentsfor the second straight year. The business of preparing for the world series will be interrupted long enough tomorrow for a, “victory parade in honor of the Cardinals.Grover Cleveland Alexander. ■Cardinal hero of the 1926 world series, has been invited to ride in / the parade, and the three bands ' which will take part have been asked to play “Alexander's ragtime Band” in honor of the once great pitcher, now a manager of the ‘Bearded House of David team.By defeating the Cincinnati Reds 'in both ends of a doubleheader yesterday, the Cardinals brought their season's victories to 101, a feat un-■ ‘duplicated in the National League since 1913. The Giants in 1913 won games and in 1912 they won 103. Ifcflst year the Red Birds won the ^fpennant with 92 victories,, ’ .Convinced. Robert Moses Grove, Connie Mack’s ace southpaw, will play a prominent role in the series, 'even if hot assigned the pitching ' job in the opening game here on Thursday, Manager Gabby Street of ' the'Cards plans to give his players .much batting practice against lefthanders. Bill Walker, star lefthander of the Giants, has agreed 'to help groom, the National Leaguers for the series.. The Cincinnati Enquirer said today Manager Street announced be-. ' for the Cardinals left there last;
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Jefferson City Post Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Mon, Sep 28, 1931
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