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Unlike modern games, where dozens of new balls are used in nine innings, the games of the memorable days of Cy Young and Rube Waddell, Rube Marquard and Jeff Tesreau and Ed Cicotte used the same ball inning after inning. Batters pounded it until it was brown and hard to see, pitchers doctored its horsehide; everything was stacked against the hitter (everything, that is, except for the occasional inspirations of such oldtimers as the pre-World War I Phillies' Otto Knabe and Mike Doolan, who once broke up a game with the Giants by swabbing the ball with capsicum...
...Trip to Court. Last week, indicted for manslaughter, young Tom Doxsee came to trial at Plymouth, 48 miles from Dartmouth. The prosecutor, Grafton County Solicitor Robert Jones, was a Dartmouth graduate. So was one of Doxsee's lawyers, Charles Tesreau, son of the late Jeff Tesreau, onetime Dartmouth baseball coach and pitcher for the New York Giants...
...Doxsee struck Cirrotta in the stomach. He took a step back and sat down on a divan," Tesreau said. "A couple of the guys began to tug at his sweater as if to rip it off him. He got up and apparently ordered the fellows to get out of his room...
...Wolff, however," Tesreau said, "decided to call Theodore Gaudreau, captain of the campus police. Gaudreau ordered Cirrotta removed to the infirmary from which he was later taken to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, where he died at about 4 a.m. Saturday during an emergency operation on his head...
...Tesreau's account of the struggle tallied with medical referee Dr. William C. Putnam's report that death was caused by a hemorrhage on the outside of Cirrotta's brain and that there were only two outward marks of injury: a small cut in the left corner of his mouth and a bruise on his left temple...