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Wiseacres call the Bears "good old Halas U." But Owner Halas, like the late Jake Ruppert of the nonpareil New York Yankees, is satisfied with nothing short of perfection. On the bench he fumes and curses. His wife Minnie is nearly as rabid...
...Newark Bears, winners of the International League playoffs: the 22nd annual Little World Series; for the third time; defeating the Louisville Colonels, winners of the American Association playoffs; four games to two; at Ruppert Stadium, Newark, N. J. Next spring, seven of Newark's biggest Bears, including Pitcher Steve Peek, who won 16 of his last 17 games, will try out with the New York Yankees, their parent club, which finished third in the American League this year...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Idol Gehrig to a ten-year term on the Municipal Parole Commission, to serve as an inspiration to delinquent boys. Rich George Ruppert, brother of the late owner of the Yankees, offered to sponsor the baseball career of a "second Lou Gehrig," to be chosen from the sidewalks of New York (Gehrig's nursery). Last week the Baseball Writers Association of America, waiving the rule that a candidate must be out of play for at least a year, unanimously voted Lou Gehrig into Baseball's Hall of Fame* at Cooperstown...
...from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on Sunday, where Rector Frank Wilson dryly observed that attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt whizzed the Royal pair around in his Ford with manual brakes and gearshift, giving Scotland Yard palpitations. He and the King had another swim. By this time the Roosevelts had developed a father...
Filed for probate in Manhattan was the will of the late, 71-year-old Colonel Jacob Ruppert, multimillionaire brewer, bachelor, owner of the World Champion New York Yankees. It disclosed that he had left all but $150,000 of his $40,000,000 fortune amassed in beer, baseball and real estate in trust for three women. Nieces Helen Silleck Holleran and Ruth Silleck Maguire each got one-third of the estate. To onetime bit-playing Actress Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, "a very old friend," went the other third, and $300,000 in cash. To make sure that the Yankees would...