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...Jacob Ruppert of Manhattan has something in common with the groundhog and the katydid. Even as they foretell spring and frost, so does he regularly punctuate the calendar with his annual statement: "The Yankees are stronger than last year." Last week Col. Ruppert so stated, and its followers throughout the land then knew surely that Baseball was at hand again. The season opens April 12. After their month of limbering, exercising, exhibition games in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and California, it was possible last week to cast up a rough account of how the 16 major teams stand this year...
American League. It causes Col. Ruppert acute agony to see his world champion Yankees lose a game. And agony was the Colonel's brew one day last week. On their way North, the Yankees lost to the Memphis Chicks 5-to-4. Manager Joe McCarthy was disgruntled by the failure of his batters to hit minor league pitching. Two days earlier he had been appalled when Pitcher George Pipgras who had done better than anyone else in training at St. Petersburg, lasted only four innings against the Birmingham Barons...
...George Herman ("Babe") Ruth: his annual argument with Colonel Jacob Ruppert, beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, about salary; by $2,000; in St. Petersburg, Fla. After absolutely refusing to pay Ruth more than $50,000 for one year ($25,000 less than last year), Colonel Ruppert, presumably in good humor at the passage of the beer bill, gave in last week, hurried north to | see to his brewery...
...other great New York brewer was and is Jacob Ruppert. His Grandfather Franz had a brewery in Manhattan in 1850; his father, the elder Jake, learned brewing from the time he was ten and started a separate brewery of his own. The younger Jake was also brought up in the brewery, became one of the dandies of New York, a stalwart of Tammany (eight years in Congress), was made Colonel by New York's Governor. Father & son worked hand in hand. They had a house on Fifth Avenue. In 1913 they built themselves a brand...
...Parks signed a beer bill under which the great St. Louis breweries could promptly open. ¶The malt syrup industry started a drive to hold home-brewers in line on the plea that their domestic product was cheaper and stronger than the commercial article. ¶From Florida Col. Jacob Ruppert, president of the U. S. Brewers' Association, whose Manhattan plant is set to turn out 2,000,000 bbl. per year, announced: "We'll find the old saloon completely out of the picture. We'll find prototypes of the German beer garden springing up where your average...