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Bill Weber started on the mound for the Freshmen, giving way to Jim Gabler in the fourth, while Roy Meears came on in the later stages. John Kilpatrick handled the catching chores. Milton pitcher Moulton went the route for the home team, fanning eight Crimson batters and yielding six earned runs...
Nomination meetings were temporally confused when bad enunciation substituted a Kilpatrick for a Fitzpatrick, and a Bartlett for a Bartle...
...Barnum and Tex Rickard would have stared in envy. They had staged many a flamboyant spectacle during Madison Square Garden's 70-year history. But last week, in his red-carpeted, walnut-paneled president's office, John Reed Kilpatrick, 58, beamed happily over the biggest thing yet to come the Garden...
Rickard's death-and the depression-put the Garden into the red. Kilpatrick, a construction man, was picked to pull it out. Kilpatrick was fond of sports. At Yale ('11) he had been an All-America end as well as a Phi Beta Kappa. Kilpatrick cut out the mammoth free-ticket list, broke up the under-table deals with ticket speculators, put less stress on boxing, more on hockey (the Garden owns the cup-winning Rangers), the circus, ice shows and rodeos. By 1935 he hit the black with a profit of $179,568, has stayed there ever...
Last year, Kilpatrick boosted the gate to $7,800,000, eclipsing Rickard's alltime record ($7,600,000 in 1927) and turned in a net profit of $1,200,000. Said he: "I think business is good enough to support two Gardens. When the new one is ready, we'll keep the old one going...