Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invented over 50 years ago by undergraduate Frederick W. Thayer '78, the original baseball catcher's mask is now among a group of nineteenth century relics on exhibit in Widener Library...
...Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew harder & harder. Ten cents was required of contestants for each week's entries...
Trick of the Yean Last year's outstanding audience-catcher was the Bowes amateur hour, acquired by Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from a relatively small station to follow in the footsteps of Comedian Eddie Cantor as nation-wide salesman for Chase & Sanborn's coffee. This season's most unusual big program may be Chase & Sanborn's "Good Will Court" in which downhearted folk step up to a microphone, tell their personal difficulties to municipal judges who pass out good advice. Appeal of this program, which shrewd J. Walter Thompson begins...
...thrower throws the ball at a certain height toward the catcher of his team against the hitters of the adverse team. The catcher must catch the ball if it is not captured by the wooden baton of the hitter. The defending team also had four men who guarded the rhombus and tackled runners, as well as three people who guard the outlying section of the rhombus in order to capture the ball for their own team...
...Position - National League Gehrig (N. Y.) First Base Collins (St. L.) Gehringer (Det.) Second Base Herman (Chi.) Appling (Chi.) Shortstop Durocher (St.L.) Higgins (Phil.) Third Base Whitney (Phil.) Selkirk (N. Y.) Left Field Medwick (St.L.) Averill (Cleve.) Centre Field Galan (Chi.) DiMaggio(N.Y.) Right Field Demaree (Chi.) Ferrell (Boston) Catcher Hartnett (Chi.) Grove (Boston) Pitcher Davis...