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Bill Parsons is the regular backstop and another main cog in the Samborski nine. One of the two setbacks the Yardlings received came with Parsons and Ed Buckley absent from the lineup for a spring football game. Buckley holds down first base and bats in the cleanup spot. Soft-spoken Gil Whittemore is a dependable hot-corner custodian and little Jim Lynch from Bolmont High is on second. Bud Finegan is the regular shortstop...
...Stahlmen opened their scoring early with one tally both in the first and second innings. Fred Keyee led off in the sixth inning, drawing a base on balls, and was forced out at second by Schwede. Johns followed drawing another pass and pushing Schwede to second. Hoye's perfect bunt the bases, but Schwede was out attempting to score as Grondabl reached first on a selder's choice. Lupien's snappy double to left drove in Johns and Hoye for two talks. Other runs were scored in the fifth and eighth frames...
Walks to Lupien and Lovett and a sharp single by Tully added the third tally. The rally ended, however, as visiting catcher Connolly nabbed Tully ambling down towards second base. In the fifth canto, the Stahimen found the range as Lupien and Lovett doubled, Tally got an infield single, and a doubled, Tully got an infield single, and a double steal worked to account for two runs...
...those 14 years, milk-drinking, early-to-bed Lou Gehrig, son of a German-born Manhattan janitor, became famed as Base ball's Iron Horse. He played in 2,130 consecutive games (besides seven World Series and hundreds of exhibition games)-a record that no baseballer has ever approached or perhaps ever will.* Far more important than his record for durability, however, is Gehrig's batting record: 1,991 runs driven in (100 runs or more a year for 13 years), 2,721 hits (1,192 of them for extra bases), 1,886 runs (including 494 home runs...
Sitting on the bench in Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Gehrig (known as Buster to his teammates) blubbered as he watched Babe Dahlgren take over his old stamping ground at first base, then silently watched his buddies hand the Tigers their worst defeat (22-10-2) in 27 years.* He graciously shook hands with young Dahlgren after the game, but the only Yankee who dared try to console him was Pitcher Lefty Gomez. "Hell, Lou." said Lefty, "it took 15 years to get you out of the game; sometimes I'm out in 15 minutes." In the grandstand, viewing...