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WILLIAMS: Starke, goal; L'Hommedieu, Palmer, Bayer, defense; Curtis, Murphy, Shudt, midfield; Van Dusen, Donaho, Mitchell, attack...
...ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally found him in Pitcher Babe Ruth, whom they bought from the Boston...
Died. Col. Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston, 71, formerly co-owner (with Col. Jacob Ruppert) of the New York Yankees baseball club; of heart disease; in Brunswick, Ga. In 1923 he sold his stock in the club to Col. Ruppert...
Unlimited class: L'Hommedieu of Springfield won by decision over Edward F. Sullivan...
...defeated Howland B. Stoddard '36, referee's defeated Donald V. McGranahan '35, fall, 8.44; 145-pound class: Brown (C) defeated Edward T. Farlay '36, fall, 6.52; 155-pound class: Klinger (C) defeated Robert D. Reed '36, referee's decision; 165-pound class: Richard W. Emory '35 defeated L'hommedieu (C) fall, 3.21, (overtime); 175-pound class: Richard G. Ames '34 defeated King (C) referee's decision; Unlimited class: Gridley Barrows '34 defeated Davenport (C) referee's decision...