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Died. Hugh Ambrose ("Hughey") Jennings, 58, famed, friendly, freckled, red-haired shortstop, onetime manager of the Baltimore Orioles, the Detroit Tigers (when they won three pennants in 1907, 1908, 1909) and field manager of the New York Giants; of meningitis; at his home in Scranton...
...veterans who will return to the diamond are Captain H. W. Burns '28, center field, J. P. Chase '28, second base or left field, F. B. Cutts '28, pitcher, J. N. Barbee '28 pitcher, W. W. Lord '28, first base or left field, R. C. Sullivan '28, shortstop, G. E. Donaghy '29 short stop or third base, and W. B. Jones '28, right field...
...George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1903 he was a lanky, nervous boy who played right forward on the basketball five and shortstop on the baseball nine at Ohio State University. Even after he came to Manhattan to be a painter, he often paid for dinner or theatre seats by playing professional ball over the weekends. He was interested in looking at people and at things so that he could make pictures of them. For 20 years he made pictures, mostly of people doing things very intently. Then, in 1925, he died...
Rabbi Kornfeld, President Harding's friend and onetime (1921) Minister to Persia, proved himself a sympathetic latitudinarian on Yom Kippur, most solemn of Jewish days. Continuing his own fast, he fixed Shortstop Cohen a nourishing snack and sent him forth to play shortstop for Buffalo...
...Shortstop Cohen played well. He came to bat four times; he made two "safe hits"; he "put out" three opponents; and six times he helped his mates in plays. He made no errors. But Buffalo scored no runs. Toledo made four, and won the game & the series. Andrew Cohen's share of the series' receipts was $750. Toledo players, victorious, received $1,000 each. ¶Past Brooklyn synagogs on Yom Kippur Day screeched fire trucks; from Brooklyn synagogs ran children and fasting members of congregations. The owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron...