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When Congress passed a $466,000,000 bill for Army camp construction last September, it was shooting from the hip. Speed in national defense was urgent; nobody knew just what would cost what. Even Michigan's bushy-haired, stubby Representative Albert Joseph Engel, a mole for figures, voted for the bill without more than five minutes' consideration. But, while other members went on to other urgencies, fact-loving Mr. Engel took time out to study what he had voted for. His conclusion: the Army had underestimated, would have a deficit of around $330,000,000. Sure enough, Congress...
...average bleacherite, Joe Engel is best known in another capacity, as the Barnum of Baseball. During the past ten years, ever since he was put in charge of the Senators' Chattanooga farm club, strange tales have floated up from the Tennessee hills. On opening day, Engel had his players parade into the ball park on elephants. He traded a shortstop for a turkey, roasted it and served it to local sportswriters who had been "giving him the bird." He raffled off houses and automobiles, had canaries singing in the grand stands. When the New York Yankees went to Chattanooga...
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...
Chattanoogans liked these monkeyshines. They poured into the park until the fences bulged. In 1932 the Lookouts won the Southern Association pennant for the first time in 40 years, beat the Texas League champions in the Dixie Series. Three years ago Joe Engel decided that he wanted to buy the Lookouts. He did not have enough cash. So he got 1,700 fans to chip in, buy the club for $125,000. That year, attendance tripled. The fan-owned Lookouts made a profit of $50,000. The following year Chattanooga won another pennant. But last summer, lured by the intriguing...
Last week the club's directors-which include a city judge, a football coach, a theatre manager and a banker-admitted that they were broke and unable to carry on, agreed to let the Washington Senators, holders of a $40,000 mortgage, take back the Lookouts-unless President Engel can scare up the $20,000 necessary to operate for another year...