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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators: a no-hit, no-run game, in which his team made no errors, against the Boston Red Sox, in Washington, 5 to o. C. St. Brideaux, three-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Handicap, feature at the opening of the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., race meeting. Two days prior, a violent wind, rain and thunder storm had carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees one of which came down on an auto belonging to George H. Bull, president...
Edgar W. Warren II, shortstop and captain-elect of the Yale baseball team, was thrown from a speeding motorboat on Raquette Lake, N. Y. The outboard propeller gashed his left arm. After two blood transfusions two days later the arm was amputated. At Yale a movement started to retain him as baseball captain, with a lieutenant to direct play afield. His teammate Albie Booth, football and basketball captain, who was also a leading candidate for the baseball captaincy, hurried from New Haven to Warren's bedside...
...city whose hotel rooms have been filled (but not full enough) this summer by Schmeling-Stribling fight-fans, then convening Shriners, then pilgrims to Cleveland's new outdoor opera, was host again last week. The guests were 986 delegates to the Twentieth World's Conference of the Y. M. C. A., held in North America for the first time since the founding of the Y. M. C. A. in 1844, and some 700 more delegates to the 43rd International Convention of North American Young Men's Christian Associations, held in conjunction with the World Conference...
...first day of the World's Conference, presided over by Chairman of the World's Committee Dr. John R. Mott, was enhanced by dedication ceremonies at a new 16-story Y. M. C. A. building in Akron, where the dirigible Akron was soon to be christened. Greetings from President Hoover were carried from Washington by plane, transferred to a blimp at the Akron Municipal airport, dropped by parachute to a group of "Y" members atop the new building. Nineteen runners, each sprinting two half-mile laps, carried more greetings to Akron in the form of a scroll from...