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- •* *four and one-half he had learned topitch a curve ball and bat with all * the style of a big-le^guer. We’ll have to wait a-year or two more before the major league teams start bidding for him.*By vROBSRT EDGREN Lots of queer things happen inbaseball.The New York Giants once set a world’s record for winning consecutive games—McGraw’s men won 26 in a row, from Labor Day on—and they didn’t finish first; they didn’t second; they didn’t even come in third! That year, although nowadays it may be hard to believe, Brooklyn and the Phillies were fighting it out for the pennant—a,nd the Giants with their ^6 consecutive wins late in the season coulddo no better than fourth while Brooklyn was winning the pennant. That was 1916.Golf is always good for some unusual bet stories. Willie Ggg thefamous professional vlho designed iron clubs with the weight built into the toe, was playing with, a man on a 180-yard hole. His opponent said,“I’ll bet you five dollars to one dollar you don’t hit that bird -in front of the pin! ” He had waited until Ogg was starting to swing before making this proposition, so you canguess whether he was kidding Willie, or talking, a little at the wrongtime to test Ogg’s concentration. Anyhow, Ogg said “Taken V'—and the ball dropped smack on the bird’s back, and stopped near thecup;Individuals are set upon by hardluck, too. Otis Miller, an infielderfor the Boston Red sox, had Umpire Emmett Ormsby for his pet menace. Early one season Miller was sliding into second base, and was spiked by Ormsby. He was on the injured list for two weeks. After he returned to the ball park, on his second day of play, he was playing third base against St. Louis. Orms-by was the umpire. A St. Louis runner came rimne into third, and Miller went down in a heap. When the dust cleared away, they found that Miller had been spiked again. Who did it? The runner? No. Ormsby.Miller's comment was, “I know President Barnard tells lais umpires to be right on top of the play, but he never told them to be right on top of the players!In a Fort Mitchell, Ky., tournament, an opponent challenged A1 Baumgartner to prove , his skill by hitting a small two-hundred yard j marking sign from, the first t^e wit^v his first Shot. “You bet,” skid Af.You guessed it—the ball hit themarker square in the center. .Weird plays by the thousandsmust come up in sand lot baseball,but this is one of the most unusualones we’ve heard of;The Lockwood Athletic Club ball team, in California, was playing a team of barbers. (What ferocious opponents they would have made for the House of David!) The barbers sent in a relief pitcher named John Ferdinand, in the seventh inning. He went right to work, fanned two men, and tossed a lightning-fast ball towards the plate as the third batter came to the box. A loud crack was heard all over the field. A hit? Not exactly. Thepitcher’s arm had broken just abovethe elbow! He must have been putting some steam on that ball.Maybe his delivery would have been smoother if he had had the start in life Maxwell Wortman had. Max was the son of an ardent baseball fan in Brooklyn, who had himplaying ball from the time he was two; and at the advanced age ofNow that Jones has. toured a golf i course in 62, breaking His old record of 63, it is. interesting to recallthat Herman Uebele,. professional at Pleasant Run, Indianapolis, and Vic D’Alberto, - professional, ,at-~the Los Angeles Country club, each shot a 60 on his home layout,. But that’s nothing. Pooh.In the Catalina open, held, at Catalina Island, Cal., a very short course, the leading professionals of the winter tour in 1929 got 'Md hot. Tony Manero, Wiffy Cox, .and-Leo Diegel shot.59’s. But youaint heard nothin’ yet.Bill Mehlhorn shot a 58.#And the highest score among the 39 prominent pros entered was a 70 — which disgrace Craig Wood brought down on himself in a fit of wildness. Tony Manero won thetournament (54 holes) with three rounds averaging 62; and of the 117 scores turned in by these 39 professionals, four were in the fifties', 112in the sixties, and one , in the .seventies—an even 70 at that.Among the unusual prizes offered for golf tournaments, Sheriff Low. Geisler’s offer for the 1930 Spu.fr Dakota open takes the cake. Hedonated ‘‘a week’s free board and room in the county jail.”Frank Noll, an attorney, offered a “free divorce” ... in the sametournament.Pope Grants AudienceTo Minnesota BishopCastel Gandolfe. Italy. Sept, 5 (UP)—Pope Pius gave audiences today to Bishop Francis Kelly, of Winona, Minn., and Bishop Francis Kief, of Concordia, Kans. -v
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Wed, Sep 05, 1934
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