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Failure as Big-Timer, BensonLikely to Pitch for AlbanyWHEN the Nationals depart for New York Wednesday night Brother Allen Wilbur Benson probably will notbe with them . . . while Benson has some pitching quality, it is scarcely of a major league grade ... he might be of help to the Albany club, though, and that is where he is apt to be shipped . . . Benson had three minor league trials before joining the House of David team ... he was with Dallas in 1927, Akron in 1928 and Minneapolis in 1929.Red Kress, placed on the voluntarily retired list last week after he had a finger broken during practice, will remain in Washington until the injured digit no longer requires surgical care . . . Johnny Kerr again is a full-fledged player ... but he still isactive on the coaching line ... Cronin thinks highly of Reese Diggs, an 18-year-old Marylander, showing his pitching ways in drills at Griffith Stadium . . . Diggs very likely will be taken to training camp by the Nationals next year.A1 Thomas is nursing a sore shoulder today as a result of a thumping it took in tfie sixth inning of Sunday’s first game . . . Susko pounced onBlaeholder’s bunt and fired the ball toward third, hoping to force Grube . . . but Thomas, in the line of throw, failed to duck.
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Washington Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Mon, Aug 27, 1934
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Michael W.
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