September 2, 1935

Sadly, and perhaps ironically, this was the date of the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 which killed over 400 people. It was the strongest hurricane until Gilbert in 1988. Even this toll, unfortunately, pales next to the destruction wrought by Katrina.

In happier news, Hank Snow, a country music singer, married on this date. Snow was known as the Singing Ranger.

In baseball news: The first-place Cards open a 30-game home stand by sweeping a Labor Day doubleheader from the Pirates. Paul Dean wins his 16th game, 4–3 in the opener, then Dizzy cops his 23rd in the nitecap, 4–1. The Cards are two games up on the rained-out Giants.

With the Cubs splitting two with the 7th-place Reds at Wrigley, Chicago is just two 1/2 in back of the Cards. Chicago wins 3-1 in the opener as Lon Warneke tops Tony Freitas, then lose 4–2 to Gene Schott. Bill Lee takes the loss.

Veteran P Dick Coffman (5-11) and Browns manager Hornsby get into a shoving match shortly after their train leaves St. Louis for a road trip. Coffman is cut from the team and put off the train at Edwardsville, IL, and will not play again this year.

The Senators split a doubleheader with the Red Sox at Fenway. Earl Whitehill started game 2 for the Senators. He was the staff ace, finishing the year with a 14-13 record and a 4.29 ERA.

Donald Budge was featured on the cover of the Time magazine published today. The magazine featured a story on the collapse of the "Ethiopia Parley", the presidential prospects of New Hampshire Governor John Gilbert Winant and a new Cecil DeMille film on the Crusades.