New Britain herald., 1929-09-26
KILLER HUGG|NS
 PREY ID ILLNESS
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 which Higgins attended as child. The services in New York will be Price, pastor of the Washington Heights Methodist Episcopal church and those in Cincinnati by Rev. Dr. Frederick Miller pastor of the Wal
 nut Hill Presbyterian church.
 Friday Games Cancelled 1 F. S. Barnard, president of the 1 American League, cancelled tn" schedule of that circuit for Friday
 as soon as he learned Of the plans 1 for Hug3ins's funeral. If was dis 1 covered later that the only contest
 on the card was the Yankees Senator engagement at Washington. The cancellation of this game will, Of
 course enable all cub-ownors from as far east as Boston and as far west as Cleveland and Detroit to be present at the funeral.
 The National League probably will pay its respect to the man who won eight straight games from its
 clubs in the last two world series by observing a minute of prayer be- fore tEc start of the games sched-
 uled for Friday. These are at Phila- dclphia and St. Louis.
 After playing in Washington to- day, the Yankees will entrain imNc- diately for New York and will not return 10 the capital to resume the series until Saturday. The players i will attend the funeral in a body.
 Chief among the mourners at | Huggns's bier will be Colonel Jacob 1 Ruppcrt, owner of the Yankees. and i Edward G. BGrrows. business man ager. Men of the world in the wid- est sense. surprised at nothing and affected by few events, these two i friends of Huggins were shaken yes | terday by the news everyone had ! been expecting since just before noon when it became known that 1 the little Miiicr had fallen into a 1 coma.
 . The owner Of the Yankees, many
 times millionaire, &lW2ys wanted q winning ball team more than any l thing else his money could buy, an1 | he stood in awe of the magic with i which Higgins brought him pen nants. To Jacob Ruppert baseball
 wars were real, and the commander i of his forces was q super general. Nature Vas Retiring
 The fcat7 of the Yankee manager
 are too wcIl-known 10 need re-
 chronicling in any detail. Six pen
 nants in wcars and three world 1 championships can hardly be kept q i secret but the retiring nature Of
 HuGSins, with not q trace of show. mrnship in if, perhaps would have 1 it so. Hug always fell back from 1 the limclight in favor of his players | in favor Of Babe Ruth, the super ] star whom the little manager once i fined 5000 for insubordination
 and against whom the fine stucl; l until remittcd by HugGins himself
 after he had won all his points ir i his battle again"t the home run l king It took the row 10 cement | the friGnd@hip of Ruth and Hugeins | Of all gricf-stric!tCn Yankees, Ruth | was the worst severely shaken. Death From Complications Huggins's death vas due to com ! plications following crysipclas and | influenza, the direct cause being the | inability of medical science to check
 the rise of infection in his blood rol- 1 lowing the spread of toxins rom 2
 boil under his left eye. Four blood 1 transfusions failed to halt the ad-
 vance of the poisons.
 In commenting on the death Of i the Yankee pilot Dr. King made t ! plain that Higgins had taken his | baseball far too seriously fer the best interests of his own health He
 said it was only after much persua- 1 sion that he got little Miller to agree l to go to the hospital.
 The advance of disease was rapid ! once Hurgins arrived at St. Vinccnt's | He had periods of consciousness, but
 at the end he was unable to rcCOg-
 nize his sister. Myrtle Higgins with
 whom he made his homo here anG
 in St. Petersburg, Fla, his brothe,
 and sister-in- law, MT. and Ms. Ar