Sport: Baseball: New Season

Baseball: New Season (see front cover)

¶Going through McComb, Miss. (pop. 10,000), Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants last year saw a crowd of 1,000 on the station platform. Delighted, he ordered an exhibition game for McComb this spring. Last week nearly half the population jammed their little baseball park to watch the Giants thrash the Cleveland Indians, 4-to-2. Next day, the Giants played the Indians in another exhibition game in Hattiesburg, Miss, where they were greeted by a brass band, a half holiday. After five balls had been pitched in the first...

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