Word: batted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Captain Ulysses Lupien's average of .438 in league batting is tops for the team in circuit games, Johns is first at bat for the entire season with .368, followed by Lupe with .355, and Bob Gannett with...
Home-run were in order over the weekend. On Friday, Grondahl smacked a long one through right field with one on Saturday, Lupe clouted one into deep left. With the crack of the bat the Columbia left-fielder turned and ran back but the ball still sailed far over his outstretched hands...
Philippe Gangnat's father, Maurice, made his money in steel, took no interest in painting until 1903. In that year he met Pierre Auguste Renoir, bought twelve paintings right off the bat and soon became a fast friend of the old painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania...
Ellie Bacon played his first game this season yesterday behind the plate. His only other Varsity appearance was last year on the spring trip. . . . A thrown bat by Quinn after the B.U. short stop grounded out in the seventh struck Umpire Johnny Mullen in the knee, incapacitating the arbiter for several minutes...
What a Life (by Clifford Goldsmith; produced by George Abbott). Producer George Abbott, last season's home-run slugger (Room Service, Brother Rat), this season struck out in his first three times at bat. But last week he came up for the fourth time, clouted the ball safely into .the outfield. Not hit so hard as Brother Rat, What a Life travels pretty much in the same direction. Substituting high school for military academy, What a Life is as adolescent as a changing voice, as clean as a West Pointer's white ducks. Chief amusement centres in Henry...