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Marriage Revealed. Crystal* Marion Lawes, 24, daughter of Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes; and Jack Stratton Douvarjo, 24, florist, son of a Mt. Vernon (N. Y.) barber; following elopement to Manhattan last...
...Stateville, Illinois, State Penitentiary, Warden Frank C. Whipp refused convicts' demand for umbrellas when it rained...
...Senators, International League baseball team, of which famed Johnny Evers* is general manager. But even before Alabama Pitts left Sing Sing, President William G. Bramham of the National Association of Minor Professional Baseball Leagues telegraphed Manager Evers that he forbade the deal "for the good of professional baseball." Said Warden Lawes: "It is difficult to understand Judge Bramham's ruling. If a man is able to do any legitimate work well, he should be allowed to do it, not discouraged...
Answering a telegram from Warden Lawes, Judge Bramham amplified his decision: "It is not a question of the individual, but his case presents a question: 'Shall the ranks of organized baseball be open to ex-convicts?'. . . If my judgment is erroneous, I am glad the executive committee and the commissioner have the power to reverse...
...Sing Sing, Ex-Convict Pitts emerged from prison at 8 o'clock, kissed his mother, who said over the radio she hoped he would get "a fair chance," breakfasted with Warden Lawes and a group of reporters. In Syracuse, where he joined the Albany Senators pending an executive committee hearing to decide whether he could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner...