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Ohio's No. I ShortstopKdnmrd Harrows In I hr Norih ImrricanHf \ le %%c,KORGK BELLOWS did not exactly attend1 Ohio State, he infected it. Baseball, hai-kelball, tennis, glee club, minstrel club.Maklo (college annual* board, fraternities.stormy petrel of campus affair* in general.(George Wesley Bellows, born in Columhu*.188'J. became a distinguished artist. notedparticularly for hi* paintings of sportsevents. Me died in New York Cltv in 1925.— The Editor.)Bellows also was Ohio * greatest shortstop Nothing got past him that whr under 10 feet high or within 20 feet range. Me could reach like a giraffe and jump like a kangaroo. Mo had the professional * trick of scooping up abulletlike grounder and shooting it to first with an underhand flirt of the wrist all in one sinuous, graceful movement, without straightening up or setting himself for thethrow Off the diamond or the basketball floor he was ungainly and awkward Mv ow n acquaintance with George Bellows antedated his college day* somewhat in Will Irwin s deft wording, I had graduated h\ request from Ohio State, and as a reporter was covering the baseball game* Cf a semi-bankrupt team that then wa the best Columbus could show in the w orld of sports The home team was getting some publicity] not so much from it* victories as from some unique thumbnail cartoon* by a rangy youngater named George Bellow* of t Ohio State Journal. Beneath the hot suns of a central Ohio summer. Bellow* and I shared the pres* stand of the baseball park Bellowsturned out to be a vocal encyclopaedia ofthe national game./’vNClE he kibitzed the locals it i, a «.11 n t n
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East Liverpool Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1937
Page 4
Full Page
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