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...managed to keep in first place from mid-June until the first of September, the Giants were last week trying to maintain a 27-game lead over the Cubs, with 17 games to play. Frank Frisch's St. Louis Cardinals, generally rated to finish first in pre-season prognostications, had managed to stay in the first division, not so much by the pitching of famed Dizzy Dean as by the performance of the season's outstanding batter, Outfielder Joe Medwick. whose average of .375 last week was leading the league. Easygoing Harold ("Pie") Traynor's Pittsburgh Pirates...
Yesterday, Kirkland opened up her season by trouncing, Lowell, 12-0. Aided by Lowell errors and eight hits from the Kirkland bats, the Deacons showed the effect of pre-season practice, Ross, Kirkland pitcher, allowing Lowell only four hits. Donald W. Davis, Jr. '37, lead-off man for the Deacons, pounded out a double and a triple to lead hits mates to an overwhelming victory. The line-ups: KIRKLAND (12) LOWELL (0) Davis, 3b 2b, Snyder Wills, ss lf, Lucas Moser, 2b c, Jones Kessler, c 1b, Cornell Carr, 1b p, Knowlton Howe, rf ss, L. White Spring...
Meanwhile football heroes of four decades joined yesterday in a unanimous approval of spring football and the Harlow coaching regime. They feel that this practice is necessary in view of the shorter pre-season work in the fall and to give the coaches a good chance to size up new material from the Freshmen. Reflected in their endorsement was a great change of attitude from ten years ago when spring workouts were considered by many as overemphasis and the first step on the road to "big-time" football...
Lothrop Withington '11, who starred at guard in '09 and captained the team in '10, declared, "Pre-season practice serves two purposes. In the first place it gives the coach a chance two experiment with new plays, and secondly one or two unknown men are invariably developed who later become valuable. He cited the statue of liberty play which was developed by a player fooling around in early practice, and the learning of new rules which the crowded practices of a short season make difficult...
...Packers, Chicago Bears and New York Giants are now worth about $250,000 each. Last week the nine National League teams had drawn 1,200,000 spectators to their 54 games this season, 20% more than last year. Biggest crowd of the year was 76,000 at a pre-season game between the Detroit Lions and a team of picked college stars last September. The collegians tied the Lions, 7-to-7, but this was less a set-back than a tribute to professional football. Most of the ablest members of the amateur side were only waiting for the referee...