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DETROIT LIKELY TO BE WITHOUT BASEBALL ENTRYEfforts To Revive “Sick Man” Have Failed So FarIt looks as if Detroit will he without representation in the Negro National League for the first time since the ngnnir.ntion of the league buck in 1X20. With the opening of the league season less than two weeks off, no physician has been discovered who has been »b|e to diagnose the malady affecting the “rick ntan of Detroit.The “old man of the penninsult fell ill last July when Cum Posey, who was operating the now iefunct East-West league in ad lit ion to the Homestead Greys Mid Detroit Wolves, iiulled up ‘takes and left the old man flat on his back. Posey declared hat he had hist a con-iderble ■mount of money trying to deter-nine the ailment which had trieken the old man.'1 hi Pittsburgh magnate, after hiving the fans a view of one of he best teams ever to wear Do* roil uniforms, shuffled his line-jp, sending some of the Detroit favorites to foreign soil. This, according to many of the staunch supporters of the ciub, was the beginning of the sickness which now threatens to remove from our presence a friendship of long duration.An effort was made last month to rouse the siek man. Levy Tin-dalc, after two week- of investigation, arrived at the conclusion that the improvement was only temporary and the invalid” wai again on the decline. Two weeki ago he telephoned Gus tlreenlei [.the big physician of the league that the patient was sinking am asked Dr. Greenlee to rush to De. troit immediately if he woulii save the life of the “old man who had suffered a relapse.Dr. Greenlee telephoned to Dr. Bingo DeMoee, Chicago physician who has been consulting physician with the Detroit patient since 1927 and the two doctors speeded to the Motor City on the fastest trains. They arrived here in the morning of April 9. and ( immediately went into a consultation with Drs. Everett Watson.; Vlo.-e L. Walker and Rufus Peak, i ither physicians who have felt I he pulse of the “old man of the oenninsula.”Dr. Tindle announced after; the consultation that John Rsk- i onk had compounded the wrong I ngredicnts in the prescription he Kid preserihed for the patient. As result of the negligence on the i hirt of the unregistered pharma-•ist. Dr. Tindle declared that . ic and his associate surgeon, Dr. j iValter Norwood, were ubandon- i ng the patient to the wages of he dangerous disease.Dr*. De.Mosi, Greenlee, Walker, Vak, Watson and the good phnr-1 nacist John Roesink, went into mother huddle after the Tindle proclamation. Various remedies 1 wore suggestd for the fast sinking! baOient, but to no avail. The old : nan of the penninsulu” had lost Interest in life and his chief de- j dre was to die. While he had not ived his three scare and ten years j te was satistled to pass on to his reward in the prime of life.Drs. Greenlee and DeMnsi left Detroit Monday and Wednesday, respectively, for their homes where they have been trying feverishly tp concoct some kind of a potion to rouse the patient from the stupor.Notwithstanding the efforts made by Drs. Greenlee and De* Mosi, all indications are that one of the local undertakers wl have s job in the very near futu c. The immediate family (baseball fans) have noticed the change in the past two weeks and are reconciled to the terrible blow of losing a dear friend.May hi* body rest in peace.
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Detroit Tribune
Detroit, Michigan, US
Sat, Apr 22, 1933
Page 15
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Michael W.
NA, 22 Jul 2023
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