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on O’Farrell OutfitRed*, While They Didn’t Need It So Badly, Are One* Who Get Clo*e Shave.BENTON HARBOR BRIGADE KEEPS LEAD DURING EARLY INNINGS OF CONTESTCardinal Scout, Guest in Camp, Recalls Perils of Taxicabbing in Cuba.ByBRAN* T. GRAYSON TAMPA, Fla.. March 24—There is one chubby, mild-mannered little man who doesn’t care if the St. Louis Cardinals never get another ballplayer If he has to go to Cuba and dig him up. He is Charlie Barrett. the seout for the former champions,Charles dropped in tp sec the Reds today and he sttll mas all a-twttter from his frightening experience in the sun of the Antilles, where he had gone to sign up three players for the Greensboro club, which Is a St Louis farm: ,He got the boys, alright, and at the samrtlme he got the acart of his life. • -{Conditions in Havana, as is well known, are on a hair-trigger basts right now with machine guns, automatics awf- bombs of more or less violent character popping quite frequently far Into the night, - I It was Charlie's bad luck to be in a taxicab that was caught between a crossfire coming from the ends of two streets. ‘'Typewriters stuttered to the accompaniment of viva Cuba and ba.to eon prestdente. which meant nothing but man-, slaughter in Chnrlic's lexicon, jImitates Axminster v-‘ . .'.)On Floor of Taxi ^ tBarrett dropped to the floor of the cab and. flattened himself out like a rug. When they found him they had to scrape him out.His driver left tlie seal like aj rrow leavinc the irrouixl and started for the sanctuary of a doorway yelling Americano,*' ' Americano.’A saddle-colored individual nestled his cheek against the butt of an old-time Mauser grid sliced a groove in the driyer's heel.The .fuss soon ,was over, with- the dead including two-dogs g cat and a tatne parrot, btit Charlie look the back streets getting down to the dock to board the boat . ■T won't pe the-same , again lor a eouple of months.' lie moaned Manager Bob G Farrell has nOt decided ‘yet whether to retain ten pitchers and four outfielders or five outfielders and tune pitchers.
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 24, 1934
Page 9
Full Page
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Michael W.
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