Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican fire-ball, who has been applying grease paint to her face since she was 13, attributed her career to the Revolution. "It drove me on the stage, and I've been there ever since...
Behind the fast ball pitching of Ed Ingalls the Yannigans took over the Regulars 6-3 in the first inter-squad baseball game of the season played yesterday afternoon in the Briggs Cage...
...Hollywood all studios except Twentieth Century-Fox stopped work to fight the water. Victor McLaglen suffered a $20,000 loss when his sports stadium was virtually swept away by floodwaters. In her basement Lucille Ball found her wire-haired terrier swimming in four feet of water. Marooned at his Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew...
Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
Baseball has presented many of the problems which have existed in hockey. Every sort of internal difficulty was said to exist on the ball field last year. But baseball, it seems, has become the most neglected of the seven majors. The Athletic Association has forgotten that baseball is the national sport. Restoration of the baseball Junior Varsity team and the reorganization of fall practice would probably help. Indeed they are necessities if baseball is to gain back its former student support. As in hockey, however, the primary need is the recognition of a year-round coaching system for the future...