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Show Cards Annex First World Series Title New York The gaunt, weather-beaten figure of Grover Cleveland Alexander Alex-ander came back in all its ancient pitching mastery Sunday to check the Yankees for the third time and clinch the first world's baseball championship champion-ship that St. Louis has known in forty years. Through the haze of this crucial cru-cial test, the seventh and deciding game of the 1926 diamond classic, the Yankee defense cracked to yield the Cardinals their winning margin of 3 to 2, but it was Alexander the Great who saved the day with as dramatic and exciting a finish as any championship cham-pionship conflict has ever witnessed. |