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...diligent students of baseball knew that Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, multimillionaire Cub owner whose family had sunk millions in the club, was not satisfied. Owner Wrigley wanted his team in first place. He wanted the Cubs as animated as the pixies that perform on his famed Broadway electric sign. To discover the reason for their failure to be so, he had hired a University of Illinois professor to psychoanalyze the team. After studying the professor's findings, P. K. Wrigley, Andover-bred, decided last week that a new spark plug was needed...
Changing managers in midseason is no novelty. In the Cubs front office, under the Wrigley regime, it has become a deep-seated habit. Once (in 1925), the Cubs played under three different managers in one season. In 1930, Joe McCarthy (now manager of the New York Yankees) was replaced by Rogers Hornsby in the midst of a pennant tug of war. In 1932 Manager Hornsby (a $250,000 investment) was suddenly supplanted by First Baseman Charlie Grimm. Because Manager Grimm went on to win the pennant in 1932, Owner Wrigley last week had an excellent precedent to follow. Catcher Hartnett...
...Cubs, 37-year-old Gabby Hartnett, in his 17 years, has played under six of them, has become a smart handler of pitchers, a shrewd observer of men. Even Dizzy Dean once admitted that Gabby Hartnett was the only baseballer that was "smarter than me." But astute Owner Wrigley, well aware of the fact that brilliant ball players seldom have been successful as managers, did not give fun-loving Catcher Hartnett a new contract with his new job until the Cubs had tucked away a few victories...
Among the spectators who saw him defeat Baby Arizmendi, onetime featherweight champion, at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field 22 months ago was Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Impressed, Singer Jolson agreed to lend his friend, Fight Manager Eddie Mead, $5,000 to buy Armstrong's contract. Under the management of Mead, Armstrong piled up 37 victories in a row, became the outstanding boxer...
...infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...