Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster--p., Ames; c., Smart; 1b., Flynn; 2b., Aldrich; s.s., Steven; 3b., Torrey; r.f., Lewis; c.f., Murphy; l.f., Morgan; s.s., Rich. Lowell--p., Brown; c., Bowditch; 1b., Broad; 2b., Silver; s.s., Gardner; 3b., Guild; l.f., Spear; c.f., Richardson; c.f., Lane; r.f., Wales, Heinrichs...
Aroused by fumes seeping into her second story bedroom, Gardner's wife Laura raced downstairs at 5:15 o'clock and found the living room ablaze. She immediately roused her guests and then sounded the alarm, but the engines of the near-by Cambridge fire department arrived too late to save her husband, who, trapped in the flaming living room, tried vainly to escape through the window...
Former University students David G. Lyon '32 and Ernest Hampden were driven back by the intense heat and flames as they tried to push into the living room in an attempt to rescue Gardner. They too turned in an alarm and then battled the blaze unsuccessfully with a hand extinguisher...
...husband must have lit a cigarette and fallen asleep sitting up for the dog," Mrs. Gardner stated yesterday, disclosing that their pet collie had been let out early in the evening and that Gardner had stayed up alone waiting for the animal...
Lyon and Hampden asserted last night that the flames were concentrated in the corner of the living room where Gardner had been sitting, and both agreed that an uncared-for cigarette had started the blaze...