AUTOMOBILE LICENSES
Automobile licenses for 1934 are
now due and payable. Plates are
now available. Fees, Territorial
$10.00, City $5.00.
A. W. HENNING,
—adv. City Clerk.
Mrs. Emil Peters of Georgetown
Ky., is the first woman to be elect
ed a trustee of Georgetown college,
there.
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SLANTS
g-J. £y ALAN GOULD
“That Jimmie Poxx made ten
less home runs in 1933 than he
did in 1932 probably may be at
tributed to the fact that the Cleve
land Indians were playing in the
huge municipal stadium and that
the Detroit management erected a
wire screen over the left field wall
prior to the start of the '33 cam
paign,” whites Henry P. Edwards,
the well known expert.
'The Philadelphia manufacturer
of four sackers made four home
runs in the old park in Cleveland
in '32 as compared with only one
in the big stadium. He also made
nine homers at Detroit in '32 but
only two after the screen was
placed over the wall. The Detroit
club had Jimmie’s ability to drive
the ball over the barrier in mind
when they put up that screen.
“Return of the Indians to the
League Park after a season in the
stadium is likely to help Babe Ruth
as well as Poxx. Ruth gathered
seven homers at the old park in
‘32 but nary a four-sacker in the
great plant on the shore of Lake
Eric. Neither did Lou Gehrig, who
also used to have the proper range
at«Cleveland.
“To offset his failure to make
many homers in Cleveland and
Detroit, however, Poxx in 1933
made 31 circuit wallcps at home
as against 26 the preceding sea
son. His other 17 were six at St.
