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S-SGT. ORVILLE MATHIAS, former Hutchinson Lark pitcher and later a Reno county deputy sheriff was pitchin' ’em with a motorized, mechanical pitcher— at the Germans—until he was winged'1 by a line drive recently. Mathias, in charge of one of the tanks in Co. B, 4?th tank battalion in Patton's Third army, wrote Jay C. Bigger clerk of Draft Board 2, that Jerry got a bit too close to me, so I have to be laid up for a little while—not hit very hard, but just enough lor me to have to come here.” Mathias was writing from an army hospital. He repeated several times in the letter that his injury was not serious.
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Tue, Apr 17, 1945
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