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...Family Tree. Family was everything to Beckwith. He never wearied of noting that a great-grandfather, Judge Hunter Holmes Southworth, owned vast spreads of rich Delta cotton land in pre-Civil War days. The judge's daughter, Mrs. Susie Southworth Yerger, moved in the highest social circles of the Confederacy, was a close friend of Jefferson Davis' wife Varina...
...only denizens of the old park are the pigeons that flit among the rafters and, for the very observant, the ghosts of Billy Southworth, Tommy Holmes, and company--which still haunt the dugout behind first base...
Crimson pitcher Byron Johnson retired the Terriers without difficulty in their half of the ninth. A small claque of drunken Harvard rooters, almost lost in the huge expanse of the first base grandstand, cheered lustily. But over in the dugout Billy Southworth's ghost shook its head sadly, walked through the wall, and was lost from sight...
Silliman College, short on squash players, had to forfeit three out of five matches to Winthrop at Hemenway. In those played, Phil Herrera defeated Jerry Manges, 3 to 1, for the Puritans, and Doug Gardner lost a very close match, 3 to 2, to Ham Southworth of Yale, giving Winthrop a 4-1 victory...
Sure enough, in mid-season Holmes was called back to replace ailing Billy Southworth. Manager Holmes managed a respectable fourth-place finish for his team of veterans. This spring the Braves, giving young (34) Manager Holmes a fresh start, began replacing veterans, rebuilding with rookies. No one expected miracles-but neither did the Braves' owners expect their team in June to be wallowing in seventh place. Last week, following baseball's usual law-replace a losing manager -the Braves fired Holmes. The new manager: Jolly Charley Grimm, 53, a onetime slick-fielding first baseman for Pittsburgh...