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Show Over One Hundred Ringers Crowd Class Room (o Hear Lou Lecture 'Professor Lou Gehrig. tM.OOO-a-year Yankee first baseman, pea-formed pea-formed his pedagogic dutiea at Columbia university perfectly except ex-cept that be forgot to call the rolL Had he done ao. Professor Gehrig Geh-rig would hava found that at least 1 10 Singers were present to hear his lecture on baseball, given in connection with a special summer sum-mer course sponsored by Teachers' Teach-ers' college. Only 40 persons are enrolled in the course, but when the news spread that the famous Yankee slugger was to lecture, small boys of the neighborhood, young sons of, faculty members, and several women instructors brought the total attendance to 130. Gehrig, who left Columbia college col-lege as a youth to enter baseball, told the class that there was no "right" way to bat Babe Ruth, he aaid, broke ail existing rules, but managed to do pretty well. As for himself: "I don't lunge' at the balL I wait until it'a over the plate and then step In just a few inches." |