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Show CLASSICS 0 fl lh? DIAMOND Chief Bender, famous for yivsrs as a big league pitcher. Is to manage 1 an International league club the cum-I cum-I Ing season. Bender Is one of the best shots in ' the country During the winter he putfl In his time representing one of the biggest firearm concerns In the country. Eddie Collins, now of the Chicago White Sox, but who for years was a ! teammate of Bender on the Athletics, I is responsible for the following story with Bender as the central figure Bender Is strong for duck hunting. The story goes that he and several other players went on a duck hunt I after the close of the season, j In company with ono of the players j Bender sph d what he believed was a flork of ducks. Creeping up carefully, Bender blazed away at the opportune-moment. opportune-moment. To his great delight every duck, with the exception of ono, remained motionless. Bender confided to hi fellow player that If he had had his old Run he would have gotten all of them. I'pon reaching the flock of ducks, to the great disgust of Bender, he discovered that he had shot into a flock of decoys, and the only real live bird in the bunch had soared away. |