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Show f r-, -t GREETING CALLERS WITH A SHOTGUN JUST BAKER'S WAY f Br J ftr B KER BY ROl GROVE It's kinda hard on a guy whn he walks into a ball player's hotel room for an fhtcrvlew and finds him sitting there with a 1 3 -gauge shotgun in his handr pointing your way. A fellow in. don't know how to begin. But that's the way I found Frank Bakt r Of the Yanks, and It was a relief re-lief to know it was just his hobby he was working on, and not a general form of greeting. Frank's a shooter on the farm when lie's not balling on the diamond He's got a!! the works SELECTS AM) 'I. ---M II S. He's even got three farms OUtSlde of Trappc Md. where he can sort of select and classify his game into dUi ks, rabbits and fishing, if he cares i to do so. J B erj sen after the season elosei there is a dark cloud of smoke over1 the Baker reservation. That's when; Eddie t'jlllns, Shawkey and Frank tret' together for a blooie bee. Outside of his general hobby of shooting his secondary hobby is read-i read-i lng about shooting and everything ltiv to it. His hotel room is m-' t'-r.-d with fold'-rs, circulars and U-lustrated U-lustrated advertising of every sort J ! from gunneries all over the earth. Tli.sc things he peruses during th-flresldi th-flresldi hours and bulges his pockrts j with through the d,ay. "That's about ail there is to It,' says Baker, "shoot in season and farm In season. I do most of my motoring n a tractor That's the best way o tour If you want to see the country. "Well, so long, if you want an-' an-' body shot just drop me a line.' |