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...Moriarity who had just graduated from Holy Cross College. On its championship team he had been captain and second baseman, with a batting average of .486. In a week of play for the Braves, Moriarity batted .324, showed promise as a fielder. Then he abruptly resigned. Calling no names, Batter Moriarity announced he hoped to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood...
Although they rallied strongly and scored four runs in the last half of the ninth, the Jayvees missed victory by a single tally in yesterday's game with the Holy Cross Junior Varsity. One man was left on base when the last Crimson batter fouled out, ending the game 8-7 in the Crusaders' favor...
...scarcely overlap but the leads of each are sufficiently amusing. The honors of the film go to Ned Sparks who suggests that the story of Aunt Jemima be told using the name of Aunt Delilah as the pegro cook who first had the recipe for the best tasting pancake batter in the world and to Warren Williams as the ichthyologist who falls in love with Colbert but cannot marry her because the daughter has fallen in love with him and the marriage would separate the mother and daughter which would be terrible judging by the experience of Aunt Delilah whose...
...regular feature of every U. S. sport page. To insure maximum attention, annual statistics are not released until the football season closes. By scanning charts, baseball addicts last week were able to find out exactly how every player in the National League performed during the summer of 1934. Leading batter was Pittsburgh's Paul Waner: 146 games; 217 hits; .362 average. Leading pitcher was not famed Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, who had equaled a 17-year-old record by winning 30 games, but New York's Carl Hubbell, whose "earned run average...
...Chicago chapel one night last week gathered 75 frazzled vagrants for the funeral of Harry Batter, 46, professional hobo, who had died trying to stoke a fire with gasoline. To Dr. Ben Reitman, president of Chicago's Hobo College, Batter had left his money, and directions to master the ceremonies. Announced Dr. Reitman: "Everybody eat, drink, and be merry-that's what Harry ordered. Harry was a sponger . . . and no good, but he had a fine heart." Services opened with the singing of "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." Vagrants got drunk, made speeches, piously intoned the Hobo...