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Shortly after noon, venerable Auctioneer Nathaniel Bacon Kinsey, clad in frock coat and beaver hat, climbed a platform, whanged a bell, started knocking down dogs. A farmer wanted $50 for his wire-haired "or keep your mouth shut." Another owner demanded "$100 or nothing" for a bird dog. Neither got it. "I am damned tired of these high-valued dogs," hollered Auctioneer Kinsey. "Get me some dogs I can sell for fifty cents. Bring them up here." Setters went for two or three dollars each. Ragged farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children...
...find prospective candidates for these places was the motive of the fall workouts. Few, however, were the number of men who looked capable, although there was an average of 15 to 20 men out each day. Among the more promising were Fred Hockel, Bob Fulton, Eliot Bacon and Sam Merrill...
...fielder but has heretofore proved pretty weak at the plate. If he can improve his hitting a place in the infield is waiting for him. Bob Fulton, Freshman catcher and captain, is a flery ball player and a potentially good hitter. He will have to work, however, for Eliot Bacon, Jayvee backstop, seems to be coming fast and by spring may really be in the running. Merrill, Freshman third sacker, is, like Heckel, another smart fielder, but is as yet too weak a batter to became a Varsity fixture...
...DEVEREUX BACON...
...chemistry at C. C.N. Y. and Columbia, went abroad with the A. E. F., made a brief venture into business, turned to chemistry teaching, is now chairman of a high-school science department, has never held a post of high scientific distinction. Yet in 1930 he won the Francis Bacon Award for the Humanizing of Knowledge with Crucibles, an account of the lives and work of great chemists...