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Show .. ..-h,,-- I ; - Veteran Charley Gehringer. . .Wins two coveted baseball base-ball honors in thirty-fourth year on diamond. Former Hurler Called Suicide JACKSON. Mich., Nov. 2 (INS) , A sore arm that ended his big I league baseball pitching career to-; to-; day was blamed for the suicide of Bennie Frey, former Cincinnati Reds' pitcher. Krey, 31, was found dead In a closed automobile on the farm of I his sister, Mrs. Richard Cunliffe, near here, yesterday. Carbon monoxide mon-oxide fumes had been pumped into the car through a hose attached to the exhaust pipe. Coroner Jason B. Meads said his death was a suicide. A right-hand pitcher, Frey broke into professional baseball with Toledo To-ledo in 1924, a youngster fresh from the semipro lots of Jackson, his home town. After three years he was sold to Nashville. .-Bought by the Boston Red Sox the following year, he was shipped back to Nashville Nash-ville without starting a game. Later he was purchased by Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, sold to the St. Louis Cards and then repurchased by Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, where he stayed from 1932 until the spring of last season, when he was returned to Nashville. He went on the voluntary retired list last spring because of his arm. Recently he said he believed his pitching career waa ended. |