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Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...
...unhappiest of those who were waiting for bombs in London last week was little Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu. One reason he was unhappy was because he knew all about bombs. On the morning of April 29, 1932, an insurgent Korean rushed a grandstand in Shanghai's Hongkew Park, where Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities...
...position and cross the line. The promoters will also do away with the equally hallowed custom of heat racing (two out of three heats to decide the winner instead of one race). They will lay out a half-mile track, popular with railbirds because the horses pass the grandstand twice, and install an electric tote board and apparatus for camera finishes. Besides these innovations, Roosevelt's races will be run at night, under spotlights...
Where was the Congressional committee? Looking worried. Congressman An drew Jackson May of Kentucky and Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina emerged from under the grandstand shelter. But still missing was Senator Morris Sheppard, chairman of the joint committee, who was flying from Washington...
...rusty and out of practice. When they did hit the ball, it rolled a few feet and stopped. Tim Holt, normally a two-goal player, hit nothing all afternoon. Charles Farrell raced around on Mazeppa-maned ponies. Nobody scored until the fifth period. The most frequent sounds from the grandstand were groans. Then Big Boy Williams got mad because Walter Wanger kept hooking his mallet. Aidan Roark, who hadn't played all winter, got tired of the monotony. The two dueled for the ball. In the melee, Charles Farrell romped by, whanged the ball between the posts...