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...fiscal 1934 was issued in four copies. One was whisked out of sight at the White House, two went to TVA headquarters. The fourth remained in the Comptroller General's Office, subject to inspection by Congressmen but not the general public. Representative Andrew Jackson May of Prestonsburg, Ky., a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, visited the Comptroller General's office with a consulting engineer named John E. Cassidy who made extracts from the report which last week came out piecemeal at the Committee hearings...
...novelty, night baseball was first tried at Fort Wayne, Ind. in 1883. In 1909, the first night game ever played on a major-league field took place on the same field as last week's, between Elks from Cincinnati and Newport, Ky. Wrote Reporter Jack Ryder in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "If the attempt is a success it is likely that every ball park in the major leagues will be equipped with lighting apparatus." In 1927, it began to look as if Ryder's premature prophecy might eventually come true, when minor leagues began to experiment seriously with night...
...Middlesboro, Ky., passing a graveyard late at night, Slim Jaggers whirled at a rustling noise, saw a big white shape, whipped out a pistol and fired pointblank. The bullet hit a big white tombstone, knocked off a marble chip which flew into Jaggers' eye, blinded...
...goes, at Columbia, the Glendons, at Cornell, Jim Wray, at California minute Ky Ebright, at Pennsylvania, Rusty Callow, and at Washington, Al Ulbricks all stand-out coaches. The latter three are all Washington men, that institution in crew coaching today as Notre Dane does in football. Other stories might told about each of them. And more color can be found in the lakes and inlets rivers, upon which the crews train, but late in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18 eyes will be on Poughkeepsie, in the seven lanes leading out from the west the Hudson river...
...week were incidents of the most famed horse race in the U. S., the Kentucky Derby, run for the Gist year, watched by a crowd of 60,000, some standing on peach baskets and some in $50 seats, over a mile-and-a-quarter track at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky...