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OhiosNo. I Shortstopleftward M. Harro*» In I h«* North %inrrtlt;anHr\ lewz''EOROE BELLOWS did not exactly attend v 1 Ohio State, he infested it. Baseball, has-ketball, tennis, Rlee club, minstrel club. Maklo (college annual board, fraternities, stormy petrel of campus affairs in general. (George Wesley Bellows, born In Columhus. 1K2. became a distinguished artist, noted particularly for his painting* of sports events. He died in New York City in 1925.— The Editor.)Bellows also was Ohio s greatest shortstop Nothing got paat him that was under 10 feet high or within 20 feet range. He could reach like a giraffe and Jump like a kangaroo. Ho had tlic professional s trick of scooping up a bullet like 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 ror thethrow. Off the diamond or the basketball floor he was ungainly and awkward Mv own acquaintance with George Bellows antedated his college days somewhat In WillIrwin’s deft wording, i bad graduated bv ,equest front Ohio State, and as a reporter was covering the baseball games of a semi bankrupt team that then wa the best Columbus could show in the w rld of sport' The home team was getting some publicity! not so much from Its victories »* frorn HOm^unique thumbnail cartoons h a rangy young ater named George Bellows of t -e Ohio State Journal. Beneath the hot suns of H centralOhio summer. Bellows and l shared theprc?** stHtid of fhr baHvhall park Bellow*turned out to bo * vocal *ncytlopa#dia oftbr national gam p.Ho 1 Ao A la It. (
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East Liverpool Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1937
Page 4
Full Page
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