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Outside of Congress, main figures in the fight against the Reorganization Bill were as extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood...
Besides Lupien, catcher Paul Doyle and second baseman Dave Shean garnered three hits apiece. Shortstop Dick Grondahl drove out two base knocks in three attempts, and all the other Mitchellmen, even the light-hitting Curtiss, get one safe blow, except Rud Hoye. Centerfielder Gannett and left-fielder Jo Jo Soltz smacked doubles. Two of Doyle's hits were two-base affairs...
...injuries will keep the Mitchell team from top strength as they enter today's encounter. Varsity mound mainstay for two years, Ed Ingalls is out with a bad knee and a sore arm, while the hard-hitting Bobble Gannett will be missing from his center field post with a pulled groin muscle...
There is still a chance that Gannett may be ready for the Quakers, but probably Dave Shean will start in the center garden moving Art Johns to second, Dick Grondahl to short and Dick Ulin inserted at the hot corner...
Lead off man is the portside hitter, Bob Gannett, who will also take his station in centerfield. Next will come shortstop Art Johns and then Captain Lupien. In the cleanup place is the hard hitting newcomer to the team and the leftfielder, Jo-Jo Soltz. Sixth on the order is the veteran and second sacker, Dave Shean, with third baseman Dick Grondahl, backstop Paul Doyle, and sophomore right fielder Rud Hoye filling out the list. Ed Ingalls or Slim Curtiss will be the starting hurler...