Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another big league club, the sad-sack St. Louis Browns, made headlines last week by practically putting itself out of business. To make ends meet, they sold their two best players: hard-hitting Third Baseman Bob Dillinger and an outfielder to the Philadelphia A's (for $100,000 and four players) and cracker jack Second Baseman Jerry Priddy to the Detroit Tigers (for $125,000 and a pitcher). To help inspire confidence among the players they have left, the Browns had hired a consulting psychologist...
Winner Menzies, once an aloof personality with a tendency to talk down to his audiences, showed a new character in the Liberal-Country Party campaign. He mingled with audiences, took heckling good-naturedly, responded genially to hails of "Bob" from the crowd. He banged away at a single theme with crusading fervor: "We've come round again to a crucial decision. A vote for Labor means a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom." Labor retorted, "Vote for Bob and lose your job!" The Liberals countered with a crack at socialistic regimentation: "Vote for Bob and choose your...
...yard freestyle events to lead the team in points won. Steinhardt, besides winning the 150 yard backstroke, was starting man on the varsity 300 yard medley relay. Kinney, the only other varsity man to swim in two events, won the 440 yard freestyle and took a second to Bob Berke in the 220 yard freestyle...
Outstanding freshman squad members included Bob Angle who won the 150-yard individual medley and swam the lead in the 150-yard medley relay, and Phil Pratt, who won the 50 yard free style...
Freestylers Lowell Sachnoff and Pete Bierre will probably swim the 440, Bob Berke and Doug Kinney the 220, and Captain Joe Fox, Mort Hull, and Shep Brown, the sprints...