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time ■to avoid di mo varyDave Danforth, another of the tricksters, had a thumbnail like a saw with which be raised the seam of the ball. Sometimes pitchers used safety razor blades to lift the seam, but Dave's thumb was like a knife ■and he had tremendous strength inhis hands.DO TOD KNOW THAT—Merle Hufford. the University of Washington’s flashy ball carrier, totes a key around these days after school hours. . , . He Is part-time Jailer in the King county prison at Seattle. . . . He hasn’t had to spill any of the interference on an end run as yet, but you might call him the key man of the defense for all that, . . . Primo Camera broke a record. at the Hippodrome in New York during a recent week by playing to$33,000. . . . You can’t deny that Primo has had enough hippodrom-ing practice to go over in a big way. . ... Up to Prlmo's showing;, the Hipp record was held by Peaches Browning at $31,000. . . . Before the recent mile battle between Ray Conger and Leo Larraond, Leo broadcast that Ray would have to do better than 4:13 to beat him. , . . Ray could do no better than 4:1A 3-5, but he beat Leo just the same.RANDOM NOTES The story drifted into New Orleans■at the training camp of tbs £Hevetoed Indiana that Grover ClevelandAlexander one day in the early springhad stopped for lunch at El Fasohis way to a baseball training camp at Bis bee, Ariz. JIt seems that the train which Alex [had been, riding didn’t carry a 'diner. It was, in fact, a slow freight.The man who bade his mates “keep your shirts on** in the crucial game I of the 1928 world series, and then stepped up and won /he game with splendid pitching, was wearing a I mackinaw sweater that dated back | to the old days of the Chicago Cubs I •under Bill KUlefer. He was trying to I find some kind of a job at that time to tide him over until hla pay checks as a pitcher for the House of David Iteam started drifting In. ICLEVELAND—Officials are confident of bringing the Schmeling- IStribling fight here. IMONTREAL-Les Cahadiens win national hockey league championshipby defeating Boston 3 to .2,Eastern Shore Nine. Seeking Games HereA newly formed ball club at Fair-hope, playing under the insignia of the Fairhope Athletic-club, is anxi-
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The Mobile News Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Thu, Apr 02, 1931
Page 16
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Michael W.
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