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...Fenway Park. Why couldn't the Harvard Brown game be shifted to Providence, where it would draw just as many people as it will in Cambridge, and then let Harvard rent the Stadium to B, C for the twenty-five per cent which the Eagles pay to Tom Yawkey? I can't see why Harvard would mind picking up this money and I'm sure that Yawkey wouldn't stand in the way. Boston College Fan. --The Boston Daily Globe...
...which are bidding on the open market every spring and then geting results on the gridiron the next fall. Taxas A. & M., Georgia Tech, Boston College, and even our old friends Penn and Cornell are playing a different sort of football from ours. They are going after their wins Yawkey style. One year out of five we may be able to equal their squads, guard for guard and back for back, but in the other four years any contest with the semi-pros will result in a one-sided and futile struggle...
Cronin points with pride to Ted Williams, his prize rookie of 1939, to Dom DiMaggio, up-and-coming outer gardener, and to his great infield. But pitching licked the Back Bay millionaires last year, because with all of Tom Yawkey's money, the Sox have yet to acquire a good hurling corps. And even Cronin has no definite reason to believe that Boston will be greatly improved in this department this summer. He only hopes...
...Yankees last year, the Red Sox were a powerful offensive team. They had the best batting average (.299) in the league, were 25 percentage points ahead of the Yankees. But they were weak in pitching. And pitching is considered 80% of baseball. To improve their defensive strength, Owner Tom Yawkey last winter bought Elden Auker and Jake Wade from the Tigers and Denny Galehouse from the Indians. But the pitcher from whom they expect big things (just in case Lefty Grove's arm is really dead) is Woodrow Rich, 22-year-old hillbilly, who won 19 games for their...
Eddie Collins, Joe Cronin, and several other members of the Yawkey Back Bay Millionaires are scheduled to put in an appearance. There is a possibility that other sporting celebrities will be included to round out that part of the evening's card...