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...feud between schoolboy gangs at the Walsh School lasted 30 years. Several moppets were slain, a score shot or stabbed, occasionally in classrooms. "Many were so small that both hands were required to lift a revolver to firing position...
Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...
Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...
Rounding out its second week of practice, a heavy Freshman team will head north to Exeter this Saturday in an effort to overcome the first of the season jinx which generally sends Yardling teams down to defeat before their more experienced schoolboy fees...
Last week the Tigers and Indians went at one another tooth & nail. Detroit won the first game, 6-to-5. In the second, Schoolboy Rowe, hero of the Tigers' 1934 pennant victory, mauled the Indians, 5-to-0. Then, when dopesters were just about ready to concede the pennant to Detroit, the Indians, with Bob Feller pitching, scalped the Tigers...