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F COURSE, Engel, who untilthis season held the distinction of being the local club’s only scout, is not responsible for the presence here of Allen Wilbur Benson, who owns the whiskers previously referred to.It was another Joe. last name Cambria, who. in addition to running a prosperous laundry business in Baltimore and owning a somewhat less prosperous b^se ball business in the Albany club of the International League, now shares with Engel the duties of hunting ivory for the Senators, who brought Benson to town.Clark Griffith, who controls the now hapless hold-over champions, looks you straight in the eye and asserts he signed Benson because he is convinced the hirsutial heaver has the pitching ability to strengthen his club.MEBBE so. mebbc so. for other athletes similarly adorned with facial foliage have made the grade—and right in this town. too. But while the local club was about it a performer with a more intriguing monicker than i^ain. every-day Benson might have been snared.The lettuce-chinned individuals who cot paid real American money for exhibiting themselves here were a pair of Russian grapplers who bore the curiosity-provoking, though somewhat tongue-twisting, tags of Serge Kalmikoff and Vanka Zeles-niak.It would seem Allen Wilbur Benson has two strikes before he starts and never will get to first base, but perhaps he already has served his purpose.
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Wed, Aug 15, 1934
Page 6
Full Page
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Michael W.
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