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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1922
Page
2
Giants manager John McGraw prefers tall pitchers. He gives a real tryout to six-footers. Three rookies racing to stay with New York include George Stanton, a southpaw standing 6 feet 5 inches.
McIloughlin the taller member at 6 feet 6 1/2 inches leads the trio, while Claude Jonnard is noted as the shortest at 6 feet 1 inch. The description labels McIloughlin as more perpendicular and Jonnard as the midget of the group.
A compilation of varied facts notes Pliny on soap and a 400 foot Antwerp spire, Anaconda as a rare man eater, Sahama height, Anam ugliness, Washington Monument cost, San Francisco Hindu temple, England death decline, Australian mudfish, Florida forests, Venice’s 80 Hercules bridges, stitches in suits, ancient math aids, Massachusetts single women, Kansas women voting 1887, Mount Vesuvius active, hemispheric cyclone rotation, Chick Fewster filling Ruth’s Yankee role.
Wallace Reid moving picture star has leased a racing automobile to attempt qualification for the annual 500 mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30. He will drive the car that finished fourth in the 1921 race.
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