Harry Wakefield Bates '92, well known in Boston as a business man, a former member of the University baseball nine, died at the age of thirty-three at his home, 502 Beacon street, on Monday, after a lingering illness.
While in College, Mr. Bates pitched on his Freshman baseball team and for two years on the University nine, winning against Yale in 1890. After graduating he purchased, and for several years managed, Godey's Magazine. He founded the Commercial Financial Press Association for operating stock tickers throughout New England and was identified with many railroad and industrial enterprises.
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