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...Oakland club, Pacific Coast League. He is Catcher Ernest Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck jaw. Easily the highest pitcher in the big leagues, Weaver has a good fast ball, fair control...
More extraordinary than either Weaver or Lombardi is Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 20-year-old rookie pitcher on last year's champion St. Louis Cardinals. Like loud Art ("the Great") Shires, last year's Washington and Chicago freak, Pitcher Dean self-consciously copies the manners of Author Ring Lardner's fictional rookie baseballers, causing his luggage to be emblazoned by complimentary legends and boasting "there ain't no one can touch me when I bear down." Pitcher Dean stated he would win 20 games...
When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
Cotton Dogs. Bitterest last week were the plaints of Lancashire cotton weavers. Five thousand had already struck against the employers' new system of assigning one weaver to tend eight looms instead of four, while raising the basic wage from $9.36 weekly to only...
...idea of one man or woman running eight Lancashire looms efficiently is preposterous," declared the weaver's union. "The work is hard at only four looms. To double it would mean unbearable physical strain. . . . The offer of the employers is a fraud. The individual weaver would stand to profit about 20 per cent on his present wage, while he would be turning out almost 100 per cent more work...