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Ohio's No. 1 Shortstoprdnmrtl Hnrrowft In I hr North tmrriranHe* Irv»c,KORGE BELLOWS did not exactly attend1 Ohio State, he Infested It. Baseball, basketball, tennis, glee club, minstrel club, Maklo (college annual* hoard, fraternities, stormy petrel of campus affairs In general. (George Wesley Bellows, born in Columbus,IkX'J. became a distinguished artist, noted particularly for his paintings of sportsevents. He died In New York Cifv Ju 1925 -The Editor.)Bellows also was Ohio s greatest shortstop Nothing got paet hint that was under 10 feethigh or within 20 feet range. He could reach like a giraffe and Jump Ilk* a kangaroo. He had tin- professional's trick of scooping up a bulletlike 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 hasketballfloor he was ungainly and awkward.Mv own acquaintance with George Bellows antedated his college days somewhat In Will Irwin's deft wording, I had graduated hv ,e quest from Ohio State, and as a reporter was covering the baseball games of a semi-bankrupt (cam thai then wa- the b* st Columbus could showf in the * *rld of sports The home team was getting some publicity! not so much from Its victories as front someunique thumbnail cartoons h a rangy youngater named George Bellows of t e Ohio State Journal. Beneath the hot suns of a central Ohio summer. Bellows and t shared thestand of thr ban* ball park Bellowsturned out to he a vocal encyclopaedia ofthe national game./'vNGE he kibitzed the locals into a winning streak that last half an inning it was thefourth innina and A riW M.dor, *
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East Liverpool Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1937
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
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