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Since that day, jovial Joe Engel has probably discovered more big-time baseballers than any other scout in the business. He dug up Goose Goslin, Alvin Crowder, Bump Hadley, Buddy Myer, Cecil Travis, Bucky Harris. He also unearthed Joe Cronin, picked up in Kansas City for $7,500 and sold seven years later -after he had become the Senators' manager and married the boss's daughter - to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. Engel's "finds" helped bring Washington three pennants in ten years...
...Going into the gloom of dark cinema houses, people are likely to stumble, bump into others. Ushers with flashlights are nuisances; small lamps placed near the aisle floors illuminate only small areas. American Cyanamid Co. announced what it considers a better idea: aisle rugs treated with fluorescent dyes, bathed by invisible ultraviolet radiation from small tubes. Such rugs glow softly all over, interfere with nothing on the screen. General Electric's House of Magic at the New York World's Fair has a fluorescent aisle...
...squad, which was on the offense throughout the afternoon, passed and ran its way to four touchdowns. Charlie Spreyer tallied twice on runs of 6 and 17 yards and Mort Waldstein accounted for the two other markers both on short line bucks. Lowry's injury was only a minor bump and he should be ready to go again within a few days...
...team got another look at Amherst plays and had a snappy signal drill. Mort Waldstein, who is rapidly coming to the fore as the hardest driving back on the squad, was forced to retire for the day with a slight bump. He will undoubtedly be ready for action on Saturday, but center Burgy Ayres is definitely out of the game...
Captain Joe Gardella sparked the "A" squad to a two-touchdown win over the "C" team until he was forced out with a minor bump in the ribs. At the same time Chief Boston's first string Yardling aggregation battled it out with the "B" eleven led by Morpheus Franny Lee and Mort Waldstein and the second Freshmen took on the "D" team. It was the first time that the Varsity and Freshman squads have come in contact with each other this season...