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...year career that had made the youngster from the San Francisco fishing wharfs a public idol almost overnight. Modest to the point of reticence, and a moody introvert at times, Joe has always lacked the flash and dash of a Babe Ruth or a Ty Cobb; he was a perfectionist of the diamond, a picture player in the Frank Chance tradition. No catch ever looked tough, the way Joe loped up and cradled it. No stance at the plate-bat poised and feet widespread-was ever so widely imitated. None could match the easy swinger who banged out 361 homers...
...great ambition, election to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., always eluded him. Lesser men made it; Heilmann's misfortune was that he had played in the shadow of such titans as Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, Babe Ruth and Harry's own teammate, Ty Cobb...
...Ty Cobb (.367), Rogers Hornsby (.358), Dan Brouthers (.348), Ed Delahanty (.346), Willie Keeler (.345), Tris Speaker (.344). Babe Ruth and Jess Burkett also...
...course, the bandits aren't further east at all. They've just broken out of jail. Headed by Hugh Marlowe, they're bound for the station, now housing Ty, Susan, a little baby and an old man. Those bandits are a rough lot an they need the gold that is coming in one the next stage; and so, for an hour and a half they torment the quartet and wait for the stage...
Meanwhile a depleted freshman track team travels to Exeter in an attempt to maintain their undefeated record. The Yardlings will be without the services of sprinter Pete Terry, hurdler and high jumper Ty Smith, and pole vaulter Myron Hoffer. In an effort to offset these losses Captain Paul Sheats will run in the 100 and 220 in addition to his usual 440 and Phil Meyers will move up from...