Newsreel clip on the Chicago White Sox baseball team clinching their first American League pennant in 40 years in 1959. Clip opens with crowd filing into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which is decorated with a giant smiling Indian (the team's logo). Scenes from game: White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio doubles into the right-field corner to score Bubba Phillips, who slides to beat a throw to home. (Note photographers standing just a few feet away from the plate.) Billy Goodman doubles to score Aparicio. Two fans in white shirts, smoking cigars, intently watch the game. White Sox manager Al Lopez, in dugout, waves a fielder over to a different position. Indians load the bases in the ninth inning. White Sox call on Gerry Staley to get final outs. Staley throws one pitch and Vic Power of the Indians hits into a double play, ending the game. White Sox players celebrate in the clubhouse, pouring beer on each other's heads. Player in hat does a goofy dance.
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover arrives at the National Republican Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. The President addresses Republican representatives from various states of the USA. A large number of spectators listen to his speech. Press taking photographs of the convention. The signs and banners of the states can be seen. June 1936.
At the Republican National Convention held at Cleveland in Chio, former U.S. President Herbert Hoover waving to a house of republican representatives from various states of USA. He waves and retreats from the podium, handing the rostrum over to the next speaker. A large number of spectators are present. People cheering for Hoover and the next speaker. A woman waving an American flag wildly. The banners of the states could be seen. June 1936.
Herman Pirchner, owner of Cleveland's legendary Alpine Village nighclub, lifts together fifty-five mugs of beer at a bar in Cleveland, Ohio. He duplicates his world record by picking up and carrying 55 mugs of beer at one time. (The record was originally set at a competition hosted by Budweiser beer to commemorate its 100th anniversary.) Customers at the bar cheer him. Pichner carefully places the beer beer mugs on a table, losing only one in the process. He raises a toast along with the fellow bar waiters and drinks his entire glass of beer.
Cleveland National air races in Cleveland, Ohio. A formation of 18 U.S. Navy Curtis F-6C4 aircraft in flight at the air race. 18 bi winged aircraft in flight in three rows of six planes each. Another formation of 18 bi winged aircraft in flight. Bi winged aircraft in flight. Three U.S. Army Air Corps P-12 aircraft execute an inside loop while in flight. A large crowd gathered to watch the air race show. A P-12 aircraft executes a barrel roll. A bi winged civilian aircraft executes several 180 degree loops and flies upside down. A parachute descends as a pilot of an aircraft lands in parking lot. Aircraft crashes into the ground. A bi winged aircraft flies low over the ground and then pulls up.
Cleveland National air races in Cleveland, Ohio. Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh walk out from under the grandstand with civilians. Mrs. Lindbergh gets into the rear of a De Havilland DH-60 aircraft as Colonel Lindbergh spins the propellers. Aircraft takes off. Six U.S. Navy F2B-1 aircraft in flight as they are tied together with pieces of rope. Aircraft land together. Three Navy F2B-1 aircraft in flight close together. The middle aircraft executes a 180 degree right wing over and flies upside down and then completes a roll. A Navy F2B-1 aircraft in flight and executes several 360 degree rolls. Colonel Lindbergh stands with two other pilots.
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