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With the departure of Dick Pfister '42, last year's Varsity shot star, and other men like Pete garland, who took four events in the Freshman meet with Yale last year, While Fisher '45 now is the only experienced hurler left on the squad...
...playing ranks have been similarly depleted. Aside from the '43 men who would not be out in normal times, captain-elect C Cleo O'Donnell, Jack Fisher, Charley Gudaitis, Pete Garland, Jack Comeford, Leo Flynn, Dick Andersen and Len Cummings are left...
...spryest baseball crowd in the country are the oldsters who sit in the winter sun at Waterfront Park, St. Petersburg, Fla. Ordinarily at this time of year the benches crackle with gossip about the newly arrived Yankees and Cardinals, who have trained at St. Pete for many a spring. This year, with big-league ball clubs warming up in their own backyards, St. Pete's oldsters must be content with their own ball clubs: the Kubs and Kids...
...Kubs & Kids are rival teams recruited from St. Pete's Three-Quarter-Century Club. For 14 winters these septuagenarians have played a 25-game series for the championship of the "Sandspur League" (named after a prickly Florida burr). They play under somewhat different rules from the Yankees and Cardinals. They use a softball and a softball diamond, play six innings instead of nine, and errors, too numerous to count, are never counted. But no big leaguers were ever more eager to make a home run or a snappy double play. They make plenty of both. Average number of runs...
...Pete Brown and Frankie Newton were the heroes of the day, Brown working the hardest and longest, and playing better than ever before, Newton saving the concert at an awkward moment with superb showmanship. The finest music in the session came when they jammed together with three former members of Frankie's band, the Trottman brothers on piano and bass, and Billy Mason on drums. The outfit blended perfectly and the ensembles were terrific...