Word: battered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Slim Curtiss handed Navy a 7-4 setback during the spring trip and received credit for a 12-7 win over Penn, the tall Junior hurler has not been at top form lately. His slow ball has been cutting the batter too high, while his fast-ball has been dropping instead of the former jump...
...where they ain't"). Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart where most other cinemakers would aim at the funny bone. Whether the box offices will consider Producer Wanger as nifty a batter as Willie Keeler is another matter. Few Hollywood producers dare strike whimsical notes on the polymorphism of the ant, the physical advantage the paramecium holds over the amoeba. But in the capable hands of Henry Fonda & Joan Bennett, top Wanger stars, and an able cast, / Met My Love A gain...
...ball player and a potentially good hitter. He will have to work, however, for Eliot Bacon, Jayvee backstop, seems to be coming fast and by spring may really be in the running. Merrill, Freshman third sacker, is, like Heckel, another smart fielder, but is as yet too weak a batter to became a Varsity fixture...
...with 17 games to play. Frank Frisch's St. Louis Cardinals, generally rated to finish first in pre-season prognostications, had managed to stay in the first division, not so much by the pitching of famed Dizzy Dean as by the performance of the season's outstanding batter, Outfielder Joe Medwick. whose average of .375 last week was leading the league. Easygoing Harold ("Pie") Traynor's Pittsburgh Pirates, after a runaway lead during the month of May, seemed likely to finish fourth...
...Second-place Detroit Tigers: a baseball game against the Washington Senators, 12-to-3 ; in which Rookie Rudy York, who got a chance when Catcher Mickey Cochrane was injured in midseason, hit his 17th and 18th homeruns of the month (August), to become the first batter to break famed Babe Ruth's record of 17 in one month (September 1927); at Detroit...