Show LAST THOUGHTS WERE FOR TEAM TEAM Death leath Lifts I Old Oriole From Sport ged i Pilot Won Two MajorI Major I League Pennants Hoped to Win Again ATLANTA Aug 9 Thal W Ia old Oriole Wilbert Robinson is dead Death came just as Uncle Robby 1 one of baseballs baseball's greatest wished it it quickly and with little pain He succumbed sue suc to a hemS hem of t the h c brain Wednesday night at 1030 o'clock and his I last words were about the Atlanta baseball club of which he was vas pres Robinson was 70 years old His span of life i saw aw him as catcher Robinson ind nd captain of the Baltimore Orioles saw him win two at Brooklyn in the National league and finally saw him worry himself himsel literally sick bout about his club here Felt FeU Badly T For or the last three days das Robinson thad had felt badly His Crackers were in a slump after playing good ball ban nearly neary all season He fell tell suddenly while emerging from his bath just before dinner Wednesday evening and broke his arm r He was taken to a hospital where It was vas discovered he was suffering 1 from m a hemorrhage of or the brain The Thelast last Jast sacrament was administered by bythe bythe bythe I the Rev Rc Edward McGrath l. l As s Robinson awaited the ambulance lance he said to the doctor This broken arm doesn't hurt me Im I'm Iman Iman Iman an old Oriole Wrap it up and let Iet me rae stay here Then he turned to toI I friend and said said- Maybe this broken arm will break the Cracker jinx also I t hope they can win And then he said and lapsed Mary oh Mary Mary and linto into unconsciousness He was calling his lifs wife wile to whom he had been married mar ried ned for nearly a half hat century r. r Robinson was born in Hudson Mass in June of 1864 He started his baseball career with the home team and later joined the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel phia Athletics after a professional year car with the Haverhill Ha team From 1886 until 1889 he be was with withe he e Athletics In 1890 1590 h he became an iole loIc and it was while pl playing ying with is s team that he was a pal of or some somer f r baseballs baseball's great great Hu Hughie great Hushie hie Jennings Villie illie Keeler John McGraw Dan Brouthers and others In 1904 was vas injured and went into retirement John McGraw ent for him in 1911 and he joined the New York Giants as coach He went t to Brooklyn in n 1914 1014 as manager The Brooklyn team was bankrupt and nd about to go under Under Robinson's Robinsons Robinsons Robinson's Robin Robin- sons son's ns n's guiding genius it won two pennants pen nants and became the richest franchise fran Iran chise in the National league and the second richest in all baseball topped only by the New York Yankees He was president and manager from 1926 to 1930 too 1030 too heavy a bur bur- den He retired in m 1931 but two years ears later he was persuaded to come cometo cometo cometo to Atlanta as president His greatest friend Colonel Tillin hast L. L Huston f former owner of the New York Yankees persuaded him to take the Job J I Established Record i He established a baseball record that still stands stands six six singles and a double in one game F r There was something of or fate in Robi Robinsons Robinson's ons on's last da day He was talking at t lunch with his friend Colonel Huston Buston Colonel said Robby Bobby you and I have got to go some day But weve we've had a lot of or good friends friend and andrich andrich rich experiences And in days das like likel this 1 I like to 10 call caU up their faces aces and think about them I A few hours later Uncle Robb Robby had gone to join his baseball pals of former for for- mer ener da days s. s He felt fell a personal responsibility to tOI the Atlanta fans for the Crackers The he misfortunes misfortune of the club worried I him While talking with Colonel Huston he said raid he fell felt like quitting Weve done our best but weve we've gotto gotto got sot sotto to do more But Ive I've never ne quit yet All AU I want is one more chance to show how these tans fans here what we can do cia Funeral arrangements will be 00 announced an an- bounced later |