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...team, with the exceptions of McCaffrey and Jantzen, took advantage of the opportunity to boost their season's averages. Mays knocked out six singles in seven trips to the plate. Lupien showed great hitting power by driving two home-runs, a double, and a single in six times at bat. Wood also was credited with a double and four one-base hits out of seven attempts. Gleason accounted for the third Crimson homer. A Harvard victory was more than assured by the first seven innings but in the eighth there was no stopping the Crimson assault. Nine hits...
...haired, bespectacled Bill Stout was a great whittler, taught the boys in his father's pastorate in St. Paul to carve toys. His whittling permitted him on several occasions to navigate early financial straits when he was struggling with the development of the thick, interior-trussed wing, the "Bat Wing" monoplane, the first all-metal planes. A onetime journalist, he sold stock in the Stout Metal Airplane Co. (purchased by Ford Motor Co.) with the proposition: "I want to take $1,000 of your money to see if I can develop something in the aviation field. . . . You may never...
Ordinarily Tokyo police would have broken up the baseball bat strike at once. Last week the subway company, afraid that trouble, once provoked, might spread, meekly yielded to all the subterranean sportsmen's demands...
...through space. About 100 spectators, including a squad of newsmen and photographers, watched as the inventor poised, 5-11. wings outspread, on the rail of a highway bridge over the Thames River. Presently he took off, plunked straight down 35 feet into the icy water. Extricating himself with difficulty, Bat Man Blain was picked up by a motorboat from which he proudly dove again into the water and swam ashore. The bat wings floated, were retrieved. Said he: "If the wind had been stronger I could have flown much farther. Anyhow, I hope I gave the world a thrill...
After eleven rounds of it, beetle-browed little Christopher (."Bat") Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured...