Wife Is Also Hurt But Children Escape – Car Is Smashed
December 9, 1928 Age 37
The Bradenton Herald
Bill Doak, famous National League spitball pitcher residing in Bradenton sustained a dislocated shoulder and other minor injuries, and Mrs. Doak received bad cuts on the head and body just before dark last night when their Hup sedan was struck by another car just east of Rubonia, turning the sedan over several times and badly wrecking it.
Mr. Doak with his wife and three children, Betty, Bill and Bob had been to Tampa and were returning over the new Bayshore road. At the point a little east of Rubonia where the new road intersects the old, Mr. Hamilton of the Atlantic Ice and Coal company, driving west on the old road turned into the new, heading north. His Willys Knight caught the rear end of the Hup and it was thrown out of control, running some distance down the soft shoulder of the new road before overturning.
Passing motorists took the different members of the Doak family to the Christine Roof hospital where they were resting easily at nine o’clock last night. The children were practically unhurt, they having been sitting in the rear seat. Mr. Doak and the children expected to be able to spend the night at their home, 310 Twenty-fourth street.
Besides the dislocated left shoulder, Mr Doak sustained a cut on the right side of his face, and bruises and scratches on his legs. Mrs. Doak’s injuries consist chiefly of cuts on the head and body. She will remain at the hospital for a time.
Sheriff H. J. Stewart investigated the accident but held no one in conection with it. Both he and Mr. Doak attributed the collision to the growth of weeds and bushes which line the old road just east of the intersection with the new, and cut off the motorists view. Neither Mr. Hamilton nor his car was much hurt. He was driving into the turn slowly, according to Mr. Doak.
Bill Doak is the only remaining right-hand spitball pitcher in the National league. He was with the Cardinals for 11 years, then went to Brooklyn where he has been for several years. He expects to pitch again next year, but has not yet signed with any team, he stated last night. He is one of Bradenton’s enthusiastic golfers.
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