Word: 30th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yawkey, foster son of the late Detroit Lumberman William Hoover Yawkey, celebrated his 30th birthday last February by buying the Boston Red Sox for $1,000,000. The club has been in or very near last place in the American League since 1924. Knowing Boston for an enthusiastic baseball town, Sportsman Yawkey set out to rebuild the team. Including last week's deals he spent $405,000 for new players. Also he replaced Marty McManus with Bucky Harris as manager. Result: dopesters conceded Boston a good chance to finish high next year. Philadelphia's Catcher Cochrane went...
...their 50th game, on a snow-covered field at Williamstown, Mass., Williams beat Amherst for the 30th time...
...less than that afterwards till he won the match on the 32nd. Goggins and Hines played a better match. They were all even after the first 18. In the afternoon, Hines was 1 up at the 20th, Goggin 2 up at the 23rd. Hines tied the score at the 30th lost a hole, drew even again at 32nd. On the 35th green, putting for birdies, Hines rimmed the cup from nine feet and Goggin holed out from five, then halved the last hole for the match...
...Casino de Paris, Catherine Yarborough to drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro prima donna to sing in a U. S. opera house. Last week, two days before her 30th birthday, she did so as Caterina Jarboro with Alfredo Salmaggi's Chicago Opera Company in Manhattan's vast Hippodrome. Dusky Harlemites, high and low, turned out to cheer her triumph and theirs...
Born. To Glenna Collett Vare, five-lime national women's golf champion, and Edwin H. Vare Jr., nephew of Pennsylvania's Boss William Scott Vare; a daughter, Glenna; weight: 7 Ib.; on Mrs. Vare's 30th birthday: in Philadelphia...