Word: batsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johnny Ware, batsman extraordinary and leadoff man for the Crimson will be out of the game with an injured knee suffered in the Princeton game on Thursday. Dick Fletcher has been moved over into the center pasture to take his place and Braman Gibbs will occupy his regular spot in right field...
Contenders with the Giants this year should be the Pittsburgh Pirates (who had acquired Pitcher Red Lucas from Cincinnati and a 6 ft. 5 in.. 230 lb. rookie, Lloyd Johnson) or the Chicago Cubs (with their new outfielder, Chuck Klein, leading batsman of the league, bought for $125,000 from Philadelphia). The St. Louis Cardinals had a new pitcher, Paul Dean, brother of talkative Jerome ("Dizzy") Dean and a team of fast opportunistic young players. Philadelphia's weak point last year was pitching; Manager Jimmy Wilson was still trying to make up his mind last week which pitchers...
...field, putting Critz on third. Crowder prudently gave Ott a base on balls, to the noisy disgust of the bleachers. Then to the plate shambled a tall, stooped figure-"Lefty" O'Doul. An oldtime hero of the Pacific Coast League, in 1932 O'Doul was No. i batsman of the National League, but a 1933 slump had put him on the bench, to be brought forth only in a pinch like this. Twice O'Doul swung and fouled. Third-Baseman Jackson, waiting his turn at bat, called out: "Take it easy, Lefty. You don't need...
...this year's series-which will not be officially finished until the superfluous fifth test has been played this week-started in Sydney, where England won by ten wickets. Australia won the second match at Melbourne but only after famed Don Bradman, whom Antipodeans justifiably consider the greatest batsman in the world, had been bowled for a duck on the first pitch in full view of 64,000 admirers. The third match, at Adelaide, gave rise to a deplorable controversy about the "body-line" bowling of Harold Larwood, who aimed his pitches so that they hit one Australian batsman...
...sporting public of Australia was excited last week by two important events: the national lawn tennis championship and the cricket tests against England for a nonexistent trophy called "The Ashes." There was most excitement "Down Under" about the cricket. Not only had famed Batsman Don Bradman been bowled for a duck (put out with no runs) in the second match, but the crack British bowler, Harold Larwood, had consistently shown a distressing disregard for the safety of opposing batsmen. In the third match he had struck and injured Australia's W. M. Woodfull and W. A. Oldfield. The Australian...