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...Monday at 4.30 o'clock in the Geology Lecture Room all members of the University will have the opportunity of hearing Professor Karl von Frisch, head of the Zoological Institute of Munich, Germany, it was announced yesterday by G.H. Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratory. Professor von Frisch, one of the most noted among European students of animal habits, is making a tour of inspection of American Zoological laboratories...
...first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby did not like his next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch and Fat James Ring. Last year Hornsby captained the Giants with McGraw ill, managed them on their last western trip, brought them home with a chance for the pennant. This winter, people could not understand why Manager McGraw traded him to Boston. In Boston this spring he succeeded Manager Slattery...
...made them pennant winners in 1904. Everyone knows the subsequent history of the Giants- nine more National League pennants and three world's championships. Manager McGraw could develop comparatively green players into luminaries-the late Christopher Mathewson,† Lawrence Doyle, Ross Young, George Kelley, Francis Frisch. But he also knew enough to spend fortunes to buy other teams' luminaries. He began his high-priced acquisitions in 1908 by paying $11,000 for Richard Marquard. In later years the price went up-$50,000 for "Irish" Meusel, $100,000 apiece for Hugh McQuillan, David Bancroft, Henry Groh. Said Manager...
...uniform; Edward Trowbridge Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade for Frank Francis Frisch, famed for speed, and James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another. The shuffling process has caused...
...winter in the history of professional baseball has seen such change in personnel of major league rosters. Aside from the Cobb and Speaker hegiras: Rogers Hornsby, premier infielder and slugger, has left the St. Louis Cardinals to enter the costume of the New York Giants; Frankie Frisch, Fordham flash, will be a Cardinal instead of a Giant; veteran Eddie Collins will again strive for the Philadelphia Athletics after a lengthy interlude with the Chicago White Sox; Zack Wheat, another oldster, has joined the Athletics after years of service with the Brooklyn Robins; Eddie Roush has been traded by Cincinnati...