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...Crosley Field 18,000 agonizing fans crammed into the grandstands. Twisting their scorecards, they watched big Paul Derringer face the formidable bats of Enos Slaughter (.321), Joe Medwick (.333), Johnny Mize (.351) and Don Padgett (.410)-baseball's hardest-hitting quartet. Derringer had won 24 games this year, had struck out 124 batters and walked only 35. Yet even his most devoted admirers feared the worst...
...mounted his first horse in 28 years, found he could ride without difficulty. Scorning help, the strongwilled, strong-tongued Senator allowed companions only to call "To the right" or "To the left" at sharp turns. Fortnight ago he began riding daily at / a. m. with his wife or daughter Padgett. Last week he swapped his first horse for a jumper named Rascal, cantered down a field, took his first jump...
...dead. They may have differed in many matters, but if they were all living they would unite in their opposition, to this bill. . . . And now may I mention the names of some other leaders on this side? You will recognize them as I mention them? Clark, DeArmond, James, Kitchin, Padgett, Moon, Flood, who died, all of them, at their posts of duty, fighting, all of them, during their lives, and their deaths seem untimely against the principles for which you gentlemen stand. Oh, other leaders will rise. These puny and little leaders who control now will not control always...
...Sheffield Farms' team took second the Knickerbocker Ice third. Bunny won the class for horses of the New York traffic police force, defeating Morgan, the winner last year, and Captain, the horse General Pershing sat when he rode up Fifth Avenue with the First Division. Tango Dance, with Captain Padgett up, won the Bowman Challenge Cup for jumpers without tipping...
With Philadelphia runners on first and second in the fourth inning of a National League baseball game, Ernest Padgett, recruit shortstop of the Boston Braves, beheld a hot liner coming his way from the plate. Padgett speared the liner, touched second base, ran down and tagged the man coming off first. He had made the fourth unassisted triple play in the recorded history of baseball...