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...Eliot House aggregation, on the bottom of the league, will probably be the first team to play the female bowlers, and feels confident of its ability to beat the more inexperienced waitress team. The other teams, from Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell House, will play the all-star ladies later...
...Neither the professional Chicago Bears nor a team of last year's All-Star Collegians, selected by a Chicago Tribune poll and coached by Purdue's Kizer. Northwestern's Hanley and Fordham's Crowley: a night football game which ended 0-to-0, after the Bears had been outrushed 136 yd. to 62 before a capacity crowd (80,000) in Chicago's Soldier Field...
...discussed baseball games in history. But Frankhouse did not reach first. Catcher Cochrane picked the ball out of the dust. His throw to first base beat the runner by a foot. The next batter made a two-base hit but the two that followed flied and grounded out. The All-Star game thereupon ended, with the American League still two runs ahead...
Preceded by a month of polls to determine who should play on the teams, the All-Star game was followed by a week of discussion. Columnists pointed out that the game was magnificently played; that it was wretchedly played; that it should be made a yearly fixture; that it should never be repeated. Baseball enthusiasts unanimously praised: the pitching of Giant Carl Hubbell who, in the first two innings, struck out Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin in succession. They deplored the failure of Ruth and Gehrig at the bat; the pitching of Yankee Vernon Gomez against whom the National...
...Catcher Mickey Cochrane had reason to be proud of his play in the ninth inning of the All-Star game, he had reason to be even prouder later in the week. In his first year as manager of the Detroit Tigers, he kept the team unexpectedly in second place for some six weeks. Last week, in a crucial series against the New York Yankees, Detroit won the first game and moved into first place. Next day, when Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run, the Yankees beat Detroit 4-to-2, regained first place. Detroit won the next two games...