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Westwood Hoo Hoo Have Champion Baseball Nine

Jewel Lowe, head of the Veneer Plant of the Red River Lumber Company at Westwood, produced a }foo Hoo "Nine" which certainly lived up to the standards of the "Knights of Ninedom" during the season of.1928.

The team, playing under the title of "Lowe's Kittens," was built around four of the '27 regulars, Mathews and Miley, fielders; Smith, pitcher; and Martin, third base, to which Lowe added the balance of the team. who seemed to fit into the vacancies perfectly.

Some of the victims of this "Airtight Club" include: Janesville, Quincy, Alturas, Red Bluff, Reno, Nevada, and Ed Martin's Black Cats. The only defeat the "Kittens" suffered was at the hands of the Red Bluff team which was composed of all stars of the Sacramento Valley League. This team lost two straight to the "Champs," but at a return game, at Red Bluff, turned the ball was thrown, but the "Kittens" nosed them out, 4 to 3. Jack Shere and Moman Dadigan, business managers for the team, are trying to arrange some practice games with the New York "Yanks" for next spring so that the boys will be in good shape for the 1928 season.

Lowe's men had the hardest game of the season at tide. their annual Con Cat at Fall River Mills against Ed Martin's Black Cats. These boys fought stubbornly until the last

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