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...doing my Minsky on the beach one day," said Miss Wing, "when Mack Sennett saw me and put me in his comedies with Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields. No, I never got hit in the face with a pie; I was mostly the girl who sat on the beach and got insulted...
...years ago Lester Patrick did the same thing that Connie Mack has twice done in baseball: disbanded his great team to start building another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where...
...Alford, San Marino, California; Robert H. Cain, Melrose; Peter C. Coggeshall, Darlington, South Carolina; James A. Dearborn, Brookline; Lawrence A. Hart, New York, New York; Charles A. Haskins, Cambridge; Albert P. Heiner, Salt Lake City, Utah; Thomas M. Hill, Bucksport, Maine; Samuel Y. Johnson, Pasadena, California; William M. Mack, Cambridge; Thomas H. T. Morrow, South Tacoma, Washington; Karl B. Rusch, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...Other Immortals: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson, John J. McGraw, Morgan Bulkeley, George Wright...
...brief period early last season his revamped Athletics rode along in first place, but the hot pace finally told on his rookies and they finished seventh. But despite his ailments and his 75 years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...