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O'SHAUGHNESSY STARS; VISITORS SCOREJ NINTHFor the second time this season ■Wisconsin Rapids and the House of David team put on a beautiful game of baseball at Lincoln field and for the second time this season Gordon 6’Shaughnessy hurled superb ball but lost. This time the score was 1 to 0 and the David’s score was not made until the ninth inning, when Earl Oil” Smith, former Brooklyn catcher and now managing th.£ House of David team, unleashed a mighty triple to center field and scored on Jacobs’ Texas leaguer,Gordy permitted seven hits but •was untouchable in every pinch but tfie one in which the lone tally of {he game was made, and he fanned 10 men. Meanwhile the locals were able to collect only three hits off Walsh, pitching for the Davids, two of which were by Red Bouton. The Rapids had three errors, but none of them counted for much as Gordy bore down forcing the men to die , cm. base.Lone HitsThe House of David team made a lone hit in the first inning, a Texas leaguer by Boose, but he died on first base. Again in the second inning, Jacobs hit through short but he also got no farther than first. 0’-Shaughnessv fanned three men in a row in the third inning, or rather he fanned two men and a woman, for the highly touted Babe Didrick-son came to bat in place of Pitcher Walsh who merely took a temporary leave of absence, and Gordy showed that he would not discriminate in favor of the fair sex when He struck her out.The Babe's only comment as she walked back to the bench was: Two of those strike* were low that he called on me.” And from the bench fhe strikes, called by UmpiTe Johnny Kuenn, did look low, and so the Rapids fans did not get a chance to gee how a world’s champion looks on the sacks. Babe did not pitch because she had a split finger.Back to the third inning, the Rapids’ first hit came when Bouton singled to left field after he had reached first in the first frame on an error by Lucas, the only one the .Davids had during the game. Red also added a nice hit in the sixth, and his fielding was flawless.“TheFansThink I’m Wonderful,” Didrickson Saysr [I’ve got $32,000 salted away,” Babe Didrickson* declared last night. And the inference she wished to leave in our mind was that I’m not so dumb.”What are you going to do when you’re all washed up, Babe?” we asked her.Her reply came quick as lightning. I’m never going to be washed up.”Never Too Old For Golf The Babe is going to take up golf which she declared no one is ever too old to play. Her contract with the House of David team expires September 26 and after that she is going to devote the major part of her time learning to sock the little white pill about the greens and fairways.Babe already shoots in the SO’s and brags that she can sock a golf ball just as far as a man can. And the way she took a cut at that base ball last night, even though she missed it, proves that she is probably right.She has her plans for the next five years laved out to precision. She expects golf to get her the heavy dough, however. After about five years she expects to devote her time as a golf teacher rather than as a. competitor.She’s Got Everything”Asked what the Babe can pitch when she works on the mound, Earl “Oil” Smith, veteran catcher who manages the House of David team, declared, Boy, she's got everything, fast one, slow one, curves . . . I'm telling vou.”A split finger prevented the Olympic star from working out on the mound last night but she did take a turn at bat when Gordv O’Shaugh-nessy struck her out. Two of those called were low/’ the Babe ranted as she walked out of the box.I’ve knocked several two baggers,” she said.Asked about her fellow Texans, the Dean brothers. Babe insists that They’re not dumb, they’re smart.” Of course their so-called eccentricities bring in dough at the box office. As for Babe, she doesn’t hesitate to say that she can do anything too. At least she’s done S32,000 worth.
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Sep 05, 1934
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