Tom Yawkey & Eddie Collins Silver Cigarette Case Gift To Austen Lake

Austen Lake (May 23, 1895 – June 9, 1964) was an American author, war correspondent during World War II, and a sports and general columnist for the Boston Evening Transcript and the Boston Record-American-Sunday Advertiser, in a career spanning more than 40 years until his death in 1964. He played professional football for Buffalo and Philadelphia and had a tryout to play catcher for the New York Yankees

Offered here is silver cigarette case presented to Austen Lake inscribed on the box” From Tom Yawkey and Eddie Collins”;  Nice gift back then for the columnist for Boston publication and just happens that Tom Yawkey was  president of the Red Sox & Eddie Collins was general manager of the Boston Red Sox .