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Died. Clarence ("Ginger") Beaumont, 79, farmer and oldtime baseball player, who broke into the game with the late Connie Mack's Milwaukee club and was the first player to bat in the modern World Series; in Burlington, Wis. Playing centerfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ginger Beaumont stepped to the plate against the Boston Pilgrims' (now the Red Sox) famed Denton ("Cy") Young in the first (1903) Series game, flied...
...whether or not more private bankers come in, President Waugh promises to keep Ex-Im growing. He measures the need for the bank by letters such as the one he got recently from Mack Truck President P. 0. Peterson, who landed a $1,000,000 bus order from Iran with Ex-Im help. Wrote Peterson: "If America is to continue to grow and prosper, industrial concerns like Mack must find outlets for their increasing production. The Export-Import Bank is playing an essential role in enabling America to obtain its fair share of foreign markets...
...late '20s, with a team that included such superlative players as Al Simmons, Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx and Mickey Cochrane, Mr. Mack worked his way back toward the top. In '29, '30 and '31 he won his last three pennants. This time the Depression forced him to break up his team. Not until 1948 did the hapless A's get back in the first division. By then, even Mr. Mack's players paid less and less attention to his frantic scorecard signals; Al Simmons called most of the plays from his third-base coaching...
...left him; their franchise moved to Kansas City. Sick at heart from the bickering that marked the sale of his team, laid up with a broken hip, his mind drifting steadily toward the past, the old gentleman was still Mr. Baseball. Even young men who had never seen Connie Mack on the field understood how much had passed when he died in his sleep last week...
Died. Connie Mack, 93, longtime manager (1901-50) and part owner (1901-54) of the old Philadelphia Athletics; in Philadelphia (see SPORT...