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...Chicago and St. Louis, major-league teams will play night games by floodlight for the first time. Harried by financial difficulties, the Boston Braves threatened to turn their park into a dog racetrack. The plan was abandoned. Instead President Emil Fuchs persuaded the New York Yankees to give him Babe Ruth...
...Braves, who have often prevailed upon the hospitality of Harvard before, will practice without their new acquisition, Babe Ruth. Ruth stopped off in New York on the way back from Florida, and will not arrive in Boston until late this afternoon...
...Hubert Durrett Stephens was holding public office (a district attorneyship) when Charles Thomas Fisher Jr. was a suckling babe. Last week they both received like privileges, the right to suckle Uncle Sam's payroll for $10,000 a year as directors of RFC. But these identical privileges were to them quite different rewards...
Fifty-eight years ago he was born in Brooklyn to desperately poor parents, a puny, sickly babe, given small chance to survive. When he was five his father died. Soon his mother took him to Charleston, S. C. to live with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes. There young Frank had his cousin Jim for playmate and foster brother. Today Cousin Jim Byrnes is junior U. S. Senator from South Carolina and a great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work...
What it meant was the end of Babe Ruth's connection with the New York Yankees, for whom he has played since 1920, for whom he has probably earned $10,000,000. What he was pledging himself in the spirit of Christy Mathewson to do was to function as player, vice president and assistant manager of the Boston Braves, for a salary of $25,000 and a percentage of the profits...