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Show PIRST MSN TO CATCH OFF BAT Matt HicKs, Who Helped to MaKe Game of Easebell, Dies in New YorK Hotel at the Age of 60. NEW YORK, April 2:. Matt Hicks, an ol.i-thne baseball player, who pluyed with the old Now York Mutuals and the Cincinnati Reds, nni was credited with being the fir: n:nn to catch off the bat. was found dead in a room in Nae-ges Nae-ges hotel in Hohnken yesterday. Micks, who whs the munf.fjer of the billiard-room st the hotel, was asphyxiated asphyxi-ated by gas. which had probably been i turned on aeridentallv. He wax 6J years |