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Ohio's No. 1 ShortstopM. Rarrot%« l»» North linemanNr % lewI^KOROB BBLLOWBdld not txtnh att^njv 1 Ohio State, he Infested it. Baseball, basketball, tennis, glee rlub. minstrel club. Maklo (collage annual* hoard, fraternities, stormy petrel of rampns affairs in general, (George Wesley B*«llows, horn in Columhus,18X2. became a distinguished artist, noted particularly for his paintings of sports events. He died In New York C’itv in 1925.— The tldltor.)Bellows also was Ohio s greatest shortHtitp Nothing got past him that was under 10 feet high or within 20 feet range, lie could reach like a giraffe and Jump Ilk* a kangaroo. He had the professional s tric k of scooping iip a bulletllko 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 the throw Off the diamond or the basketball floor he was ungainly and awkward.My own acquaintance with George Bellowsantedated his college days somewhat in Will Irwin s deft wording, 1 had graduated h\ re quest from Ohio State. «nd as a reporter was covering the baseball games of a semi-bankrupt team that then w,o the h. nt Columbus could show in the world of sport* The home team was getting some publicity* not so much from Its victories ms from sonic unique thumbnail cartoons by a rangy young ster named George Bellows of t o Ohio State Journal. Beneath the hot suns of a central Ohio summer. Bellows and l shared the press stand of the baseball park Bellowsturned out to he a vocal encyclopaedia ofthe national game.
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East Liverpool Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1937
Page 4
Full Page
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