September 28: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1913, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, βIt was a long time coming, but it came at last β on the last day of the season β a winning by the Brooklyn Superbas over the New York Giants in the series of four games with which those two teams ended the interborough strife for 1913. The winning was by 4 to 0, and was largely due to the various deeds of three persons, the same being G. Napoleon Rucker, who held the Giants to four scattered hits; George Cutshaw, who scored three of the four runs, and Zacharia Wheat, who made a home run that was a great help, a double that drove in Cutshaw from second and a single that drove in Cutshaw from third. Cutshaw made another run without the assistance of Z. Wheat, but he was ably abetted in that instance by the walloping of Charley Stengel, whose place Wheat took in the line-up, when Charles was bounced by Umpire Charley Rigler in the first inning for kicking on a decision at the plate. They may be Giants in the National League, and they are Giants, indeed, when playing a team that is off its feed, but the Giants bore a decided resemblance to the well-known shrimp after yesterdayβs game. Their shriveling was watched by a crowd of 9,500 paying fans, to say nothing of deadheads, and when the 9,500, who had given up their coin and, therefore, had a moral right to express their opinion, filtered through the gates of Ebbets Field for the last time this year, they were convinced that the Giants will have to do a heap of growing if they expect to beat the Philadelphia Athletics in the Worldβs series which begins at the Polo Grounds a week from next Tuesday.β
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ON THIS DAY IN 1930, the Eagle reported, βWhen the wind blows 14 miles an hour it is just 5.4 times as cold to the bare skin as still air at the same temperature. Contrary to teachings of some scientists and a popular belief, fur is not warmest with the hair turned inside. Certain clothing actually makes one cooler in still air than none at all. These and other discoveries about warmth of clothing are reported to the American Society for Testing Materials by Ephriam Freedman, director of the bureau of standards of R.H. Macy & Co., according to the Associated Press. They were found with a new kind of robot which looks like an elongated tin can and radiates heat exactly like an unclothed human body. It can be dressed and then made to record the warming properties of its suitings. This robot has bronze skin, and for nerves a wire-thin 400-inch long copper, xylene-filled thermometer, which is wound spirally around the outside of its body. Its insides are an electrical heating apparatus and it records the exact amount of energy, in watts, necessary to maintain its bronze skin at body temperature. It lives in a big box where the temperature ranges from 20 above zero to 90 in the shade.β
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York Cityβs most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents.Β If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of βcool and hipβ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been βuncoolβ.