Baseball Stars Eye Comebacks and Big Season Prospects
Max Baer dominates boxing talk while planning two fights in one night and a potential rematch. Lou Gehrig eyes Ruth’s home run mark as he nears retirement with a strong 1934 season claim. Rabbit Maranville seeks to return to second base for the Boston Braves after a broken ankle and remains a valued veteran asset.
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Lou Gehrig
Babe Ruth
Swat
Gehrig
Rabbit Maranville
Boston Braves
Maranville
Leasst
Connie Mack opposes night baseball in early trial talks
Connie Mack denounces night games as a tiresome spectacle for fans as National League clubs weigh experiments. He notes the league will resist but fears a floodlight push in 1935 if night games gain big traction, arguing daytime attendance already wanes and proposing evening play.
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Connie Mack
Mack
Gelbert’s Spring Comeback Hopes Rise After Injury
Charlie Gelbert, famed shortstop, battles back from a 1932 injury that nearly cost his leg. Reports say he is on the road to recovery and could return to form, challenging rival Leo Durocher who stands in his path to the lineup.
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Charlie Gelbert
Gelbert
Tie
Leo Durocher
Australian hopes hinge on Crawford and teammates
Australia eyes a Davis cup triumph with Jack Crawford Adrian Quist Vivian McGrath and Don Turnbull leading. Norman Brooks captains a strong unit while Crawford has beaten Fred Perry and teamed with McGrath to defeat Perry and Hughes.
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Australia
Jack Crawford
Adrian Quist
Vivian McGrath
Don Turnbull
Crawford
Fred Perry
McGrath
Perry
Geo. Patrick Hughes
Norman Brooks
Japs In Chaco Reach Paraguay For Farming Colony
A Japanese mission has arrived in Paraguay to establish a farming colony in the Chaco region near Sao Paulo, a venture prompted by Brazilian closure of the area to European settlers.
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Beunos
Aires
Paraguay
Chaco
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Bull Gores Two in Atlanta Rampage Before Being Shot
A mad bull escaped a farmer’s truck after a collision in Atlanta gored two people and charged through city streets. Officers shot the animal as it knocked down fences billboards and other obstacles on its path toward the capital.
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Atlanta
Yonkers Man Fakes Death in Domestic Quarrel Amid Shooting
In Yonkers New York John Rosendale staged a death by firing a shot into a living room sofa after a quarrel with his wife. She, seeing him apparently dead, grabbed the gun and shot herself in the side.
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Yonkers
N. Y
John Rosendale
Pig Found In Cave After 34 Days Missing
Dorothy Fites of Big Prairie Ohio found a hungry pig in a foot excavation near her home. A neighboring farmer claimed the por ker had been missing for 34 days.
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Big Prairie
Dorothy — Fites
Pains in Stomach Prompt Hospital Surgery
Nyack New York Mrs. Paul Pappas 40 under hospital care reported stomach pains. Surgeons operated and removed 22 items including nails spoons straight and safety pins tire chain links rubber bands bed spring fragments glass and a meat skewer.
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Nyack
N. Y
Paul Pappas
Rescue of Window Washer Dangling from High Floor
Alfred Le Fleur, 34, a window washer, dangled from a six story window in Boston. A policeman lowered him head first from a higher window after his safety belt rope broke. He fainted as rescue began and was brought to safety.
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Boston
Alfred le Fleur
Jump from Empire State Building Ends in Tragedy in New York
Irma P. Eberhardt, 22, leaped from the Empire State Building’s 6th floor platform and crashed on the mat below at the 38rd street entrance. It marks the first suicide from this route. Earlier, a man had jumped from the 102nd floor but landed on the 86th floor extension.
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New York
Empire State Building
Irma P. Eberhardt
Read verdict mix up ends in acquittal
Cleveland reports Oscar Hawkins fainted as Judge A R Corlett read guilty of murder in the first degree. He was revived to learn the jury had found him not guilty, a misread verdict corrected after the shock.
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Cleveland
Oscar Hawkins
A. R. Corlett
Bride to be widowed as sailor dies of poison toast
George Fletcher a one year old sailor aboard the U S S Oklahoma lifted a glass of whiskey to toast his bride to be. He toppled over dead an analysis showed poison. His parents from El Paso Texas attended his funeral.
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Long Beach
Calif
George Fletcher
U. S. S. Oklahoma
el Paso
Texas
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