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Wood joins two members of last year's Eastern Champion team, center Billy Clearly and defensemasn Doug Manchester, as potential Olympic team members. The Army last week also announced special leaves for the two from their Fort Knoxs, Ky., base...
George Harris grew up on a 280-acre farm in Todd County, Ky., 100 miles or more from Joe Moore's home across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed...
...Luck. Still dissatisfied with the quality of his cattle, Joe worked doggedly to improve his herd. A few months later, Joe and Donald Moore drove over to Winchester, Ky. to look around for more cattle. There Joe spotted a pair of beautiful Angus heifers, "the prettiest things you ever saw." But their owner wanted $500 apiece, and father Donald argued that the price was too high for Joe. Joe reluctantly agreed, spent the rest of the day looking at other cattle. That night Joe took his disappointment back to the hotel. Still discussing the two heifers he had liked...
That summer of 1910, at the age of 20, he signed on at $75 a month as an out fielder for a bush-league club in Kankakee. Ill. In July the league folded. Not Casey. He moved to Maysville, Ky., in the Blue Grass League. He was in base ball for life...
DAVID B. DICK Lexington, Ky...