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Show BASEBALL PLAYER FATALLY INJURED Falls Fifty Feet Down a Chute in a Mine, Breaking Both Legs.. LEADVILLE. April 28. Vincent IlV pin, captain and manager of tho Lead villa Bites baseball club, and one of the best known shortstops in the State league, was fatally Injured last evening at the Mover mine. Lappin had been down In the property and was gotns; from one drift to another ahead of some other men when he wandered away and struck a chute, through which he fell a distance of fifty feet. His legs were broken arid he was internally injured. He is still alive, but no hope of recovery is entertained. enter-tained. He is Zi years oJd. |