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Detroit Tigers beat Chicago White Sox at Tigers' home opener baseball game, 1934
Newsreel clip from "Ford News" about opening day of the 1934 baseball season at Detroit's Navin Field. View of the crowd as announcer says 24,000 turned out on a frigid day. Shots of pregame ceremonies, with parade and raising of the American flag. Firefighters present trophy that will go to team's most valuable player. Tigers manager and catcher Mickey Cochrane smiles at huge floral display showing his likeness, and is later given a new car by Ford Motor Company. Camera pans across Tigers players in warmup jackets, standing on steps of the dugout. Mayor Frank Cousins throws out first pitch. Game starts, White Sox third baseman Jimmy Dykes singles to score Luke Appling. Another White Sox player grounds out. In sixth inning, Cochrane slides into third after a hit by Goose Goslin. (Note smokestack pumping out black smoke in background.) After Cochrane scores, Hank Greenberg hits a double to score Goslin. A smiling Cochrane holds a bat in the dugout. Shots taken from unusual angle show other Tigers scoring and running bases. Clip ends with title card saying "See the Ford News at this theatre every week."
Game 7 World Series baseball match between Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals in Detroit Michigan
Scenes from game 7 of the World Series in 1934: Detroit Tigers, of Detroit, Michigan play against the St. Louis Cardinals from St. Louis, Missouri, at Navin Field in Detroit Michigan. The players include Frankie Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, Dizzy Dean and Joe "Ducky" Medwick. The players playing the game. Notable persons watching the game include: Henry Ford, son Edsel Ford, Will Rogers and R Judge Landis (Kenesaw Mountain Landis), the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball. A large crowd of spectators watch the game in the stadium. Fans throw pop bottles and fruit onto the field in the 6th inning of game 7 after Cardinals star Ducky Wucky Medwick slides into the Detroit 3rd baseman Marv Owen. Medwick is removed from the game by Commissioner Landis. St. Louis Cardinals with its infamous "Gashouse Gang" win the game and the series. From a "25 years ago today" retrospective in a UN newsreel, dated September 24, 1959.
Young boys and girls compete for prizes in a birdhouse building contest
Many samples of handicrafts are exhibited by young girls and boys in Bird House building contest. Group of boys holding bird houses they made. Few boys pose with their bird houses. View of two girls holding bird houses pose as winners. 14 year old Donald Greeger wins with his Purple Martin house, which is admired by Walter Hastings, wildlife photographer of the state conservation department.
Rare stamps shown at Philatelic Exhibition in Michigan
Rare Stamps are shown at Philatelic Exhibition, the annual show of the Michigan Stamp Club. Crowd looking at stamps. Two winners of World's Fair Beauty contest, Lorraine Nevins and Ruth Hardy, looking at stamps and talking with Club President S.E. Andrews and C.A. Temple. 13ounce Swedish Coin and rare Saint Louis Bear stamp is shown, listed at $250.
Waste converted into wages by Goodwill Industries.
Shows how waste is converted into wages by social body like Goodwill Industries. View of Goodwill Industries store and then a local home where men carry furniture and pile it on to a truck. Couple enters the store and looks at the furniture. Men and women in shop repairing merchandise, sewing, ironing. Lot of people in the Goodwill Industries stores. Baby holding a doll. Women viewing a vase. Every waste given to Goodwill industries in turn provides a job to someone.
An old lady celebrates her 101st birthday.
An old lady, Elizabeth Booth (or Elizabeth Boone), celebrates her 101st birthday. She carries a cane and opens the front door of a simple wooden house to come out. She fills her mouth with some chewing tobacco. "eatin' backy"