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Results of three Navy softball games were in at press time. Companies One and Three are setting the sandlot pace, each having bagged its opener. Company Three downed Company Two, 8 to 0, in a game climaxed by Phillip's home run in the top of the fourth frame. Company One eked out a victory over Company Four 7 to 4 in a game marked by the evenness of the hitting. To round out the story Company Four overcame Company Two last Tuesday, the able pitching of Hutchinson and Told holding each other's teams to only one hit apiece...
...Sandlot Star. Lausche is 48, tall, modest, curly-haired (see cut). Son of a Slovene steelworker, he grew up in the factory section, helped support nine brothers and sisters after his father died. On Cleveland's sandlots he became a star third baseman, was playing pro ball for Duluth when World War I broke out. He came out of the war a second lieutenant, rejected baseball for law. By 1934 he was police judge. Friends used to find him after court, brooding, haunted by doubts of the justice of his decisions. They guessed he was upward bound, unless...
...Harry Ruby's real passion in life is neither song nor script writing-it is baseball. Ever since a day, 22 years ago, when Ruby stopped in New Rochelle to watch a Westchester League sandlot game, baseball has obsessed him to the point of mania. With doglike devotion, he has followed the White Sox, the Giants, the Cubs, and a half-dozen other U.S. Major League teams in training and on the road. Ruby owns and wears the uniforms of all the teams he fools with. He spends most of his time bench-warming...
...baseball park outside the city limits. The burden of his remarks: if the U.S. tended to its knitting it could be safe from invasion; Germany was invincible; England was not to be trusted. ("England may turn against us as she has turned against France and Finland.") Sharing the sandlot rally with Isolationist Lindbergh was Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who shouted: "I will not be silenced...
Yesterday a polite refusal arrived from New Haven. In a letter in which he referred to the baseball team as a "crew," the president of the Yale Chapter said that Yale Seniors are too busy with comprehensive examinations in May to be able to fool around with sandlot baseball games...