Babe Ruth faces off with Dutch Leonard not hit a homer?
In the Ruth era, pitcher Dutch Leonard boasted he would not give Ruth a fat pitch. Leonard, who played six seasons with Ruth on the Red Sox, reveals how he limited Ruth’s power. Ruth later joined the Yankees in 1920 and finished a 21-year career with 729 homers.
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San Francisco
Babe Ruth
Youll
Dutch
Ruth
Boston Red Sox
Babe
New York Yankee
Leonard
Detroit
Hall of Fame
Annual Spring Game Tonight at Butler Field
The Sandies meet the Exes in a spring finale under lights at Butler Field at 8:15 pm. Coach Howard Lynch debuts a two backfield system while fans pay 10 25 cents for admission and 10 cents for students. Proceeds go to the high school activity fund. More than a third of China’s population remains illiterate.
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Butler
Sandies
Brother
Howard Lynch
Lynch
Exes
Sandies Edwards
Le-Re
Wooten
Kile
Kert
Warner
Jones
Tigart
Hale
Center
Burden Hill
Moss Cazzell
Ft-B
Luton
Page
Boyter
Redus Gill
Greathouse Andrews
Payne
C. Clark Corbell
Baker Rice
Johnson
Harlow
Children Dig For Worms At Rex Theater Admission
Rex Theater in Amarillo offers admission with a can of four dozen or more common angle worms as legal tender. Manager Jim Golding sponsors the worm afternoon event in cooperation with Buffalo Lake fish bait concession. The fishing season opens June 1 and the offer applies to children and adults.
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Amarillo
Rex Theater
Jim Golding
Wormernoon
Fish Bait
Buffalo Lake
Red Sox seize AL pennant pace with 7 5 win
Boston moves 3 games up on Indians after a 7 5 victory over the St Louis Browns as rain interrupts others including Yankees Cubs Bees and a Reds Dodgers title bid. Al Lopez homer helps Bees fall to Cubs. Browns game ends early.
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Judson Bailey
Associated Press
Boston Red Sox
Red Sockers
Thhey
Cleveland Indians
Indians
St. Louis Browns
New York Yankees
Yanks
Chicago
Boston
Chicago Cubs
Bees
al Lopez
Big Bill Lee
Cincinnati Reds
Brooklyn Dodgers
Iron Doorstep Once Was Bed Of Noted Press
In Manchester Tennessee the doorstep at J F E Matthews farm at Summitville comes from the bed of a Civil War era printing press that once housed True Patriot type. Union soldiers destroyed the press during their march, scattering parts through the town. The iron bed later became a fireplace hearth and finally a doorstep marking a famed relic.
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Manchester
Tenn
J. FE. Matthews
Summitville
Fort Sumter
J. B. Harrison
Coffee County
Matthews
Tennessee
Phi Beta Kappa Selects Co-Ed Long Blind Student
Zada Sparkman a 24 year old Washington University senior blind since infancy has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa the top academic honor society. She majors in English and Spanish literature and has consistently ranked in the top 20 of her class while navigating campus unaided using Braille notes and a stenographic tablet. She rises early rides the 8 o clock street car and spends hours listening to NYA readers to keep up with assignments and she enjoys plays concerts and easy to follow films.
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ST. Louis
LLP
Washington University
Zada Sparkman
Miss Sparkman
NYA
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Babe the Bambino
Hubert B
News-Globe
Hudson
China
Ladies
Gheendinck Western Brewery Co
Belleville, Il
Maginot Line
Century Club
Bosox
Phi Beta Kappa
Bert Levy, Inc
Bert Levy Clothing Store
Nek
Tate
Texas
Phoenix Sox
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