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...Just a Game. By 1933 Stagg was 70 and up for mandatory retirement. Double A Stagg was football's Grand Old Man. Only Connie Mack, 80-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, compared with him then (as he does now) in disregard of age. Both hate liquor and tobacco. Both have infinite faith in their players. Both recognize that baseball and football are only games-something few coaches admit-and refuse to flail their breasts or their players when they hit a losing streak...
...stroke, Bill Brengle '46; 7, Graham Smythe '45; 6, Frank Hatch '46; 5, Henry Middendrof, Jr. '45; 4, Mack Beal, Jr. '46; 3, Ken McAfee '46; 2, Gene Parker '46; bow, Henry Morgan, Jr. '46; cox, Windsor Wright...
...aging (36) Bill Dickey, a Gibraltar of a catcher for 16 years, who hits .348 in those games he feels spry enough to play; the Cardinals', shy Stan Musial, a sprinting outfielder who leads the National League in hitting (.358); Yankee third-baseman Bill Johnson, whom Connie Mack calls the year's best rookie...
Died. Judge Julian William Mack, 77, pioneer Zionist leader, veteran U.S. Circuit Court jurist (1911-41); in Manhattan. Chairman of the first American Jewish Congress (1918-19), he headed the Jewish delegations to the Paris Peace Conference, was president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1918 to 1921. Under his questioning as a member of World War I's Board of Inquiry on Conscientious Objectors, Alvin York dropped his objections...
...Seven Hall of Famers: Honus Wagner, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson, George Sisler, Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Manager Connie Mack; and crack Oldtimers Duffy Lewis, Roger Bresnahan, Red Murray, Umpire Bill Klem...