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...chairman of the board and longtime (1918-34) president of baseball's National League; after long illness; in San Diego. Heydler began his career as a printer's devil, once carried a proof of a Government document to the White House, where he recited Casey at the Bat for President Cleveland. He helped to install baseball's first commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and was a pioneer in establishing the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown...
Leading the jayvee attack were Jim Shue and Alan Slotkin, who both went two for two, and Bobo McGarrity, who hit safely twice in his three times at bat...
...varsity added two more in the sixth on walks to Stahura and Bing Crosby, a sacrifice by Repetto, a wild pitch, and a long fly from the bat of Bob Cleary. Brown scored once in the eighth on three singles, but Kessler relieved and put out the fire...
Died. Clarence ("Ginger") Beaumont, 79, farmer and oldtime baseball player, who broke into the game with the late Connie Mack's Milwaukee club and was the first player to bat in the modern World Series; in Burlington, Wis. Playing centerfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ginger Beaumont stepped to the plate against the Boston Pilgrims' (now the Red Sox) famed Denton ("Cy") Young in the first (1903) Series game, flied...
...Dave threw a big gala open house and many of the folks who made that scene haven't returned for subsequent ones. "What with the Design School, (a segment of which allegedly wants to do something about the graying 'fluid' paintings on the wall), the Greeks, the Bat Club and the Advocate, we have a crazy international gang," Dave notes with understandable pride. "We really aren't looking for the conventional people who don't like our prices. There's a market for what we serve, you know." says Dave, who has no beard but who does have a cigarette...