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...good customers were Walter Owen Briggs and John Kelsey, coming figures in the coming automobile industry. When Walter Briggs was unable to get World Series pasteboards because the ball club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter Briggs?" Mel grew eloquent about Briggs's loyalty to the Tigers, offered to introduce him to Navin. When...
...Navin, Briggs and Kelsey became good friends, and when Mr. Navin's partner died in 1918 Walter Briggs, president of Briggs Mfg. Co., and John Kelsey, who had built up Kelsey Wheel Co., each bought a quarter interest in the Tigers, but allowed Navin full control of the club...
...made his triumphal entry into the city and his drive to the Stadium in a pouring rain which drove even his admirers from the streets. When Franklin Roosevelt followed five days later he had a balmy night and the streets were packed. At Detroit when Nominee Landon spoke at Navin Field ball park the temperature was 43° and barely 10,000 Republicans shivered in the grand stands. When Nominee Roosevelt spoke two nights later Cadillac Square was jammed with listeners and the illuminated thermometer shining down on them showed the temperature...
Died. Frank J. Navin, 64, since 1903 president and chief stockholder of the Detroit Tigers; of a heart attack at the Detroit Riding & Hunt Club. For $700 he bought the great Tyrus Raymond Cobb in 1905; last year he paid $100,000 for Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, manager of the team which won its first World Series last month (TIME...
...cover the opening game of the World Series last week some 350 working newspapermen were actively engaged at Detroit's Navin Field. That night the momentous doings between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs were swept from the nation's headlines to make way for War. In the heart of Ethiopia, in a city populated by 70,000 blackamoors, some 68 of the world's crack newsmen were feverishly at work reporting the biggest story since Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was snatched from his crib in Hopewell...