Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaker was Fred Herbert Brown. Twenty-eight years ago Bostonians knew him for a couple of seasons as catcher on their Braves. Then he retired to his native New Hampshire, became a small-town lawyer. He did not again emerge into public life until 1914 when he was elected Mayor of Somersworth, was later appointed U. S. District Attorney by Woodrow Wilson. In 1922 he gained a second brief lease on fame by being elected the Democratic Governor of rock-ribbed Republican New Hampshire. After his term of office, he became a member of New Hampshire's Public Service...
...Paul, Donald Harding, 3, climbed into an empty trolley car, swung the air brake handle, careened downhill. George Jelinek, 17, jumped on the cow catcher, broke the front window and swung the brake handle back, just as the car jumped the tracks. Only casualty: Donald Harding's mother, who cut her arm trying to climb in a side window...
...last two innings of the April game were played under protest by Princeton. The controversy resulted from the interpretation of a ground rule by the umpire when the catcher's throw in an attempt to catch a runner off first base went into an outfield overflow crowd...
Princeton's protest was apparently based on the sixth inning decision that catcher Reichel's wild attempt to catch Dick Maguire off first allowed the three Crimson runners to score, while the verdiot was rendered after Coach Fred Mitchell's definition of the ground rule to the officials, and the Tigers' two runs from the overthrow were disallowed. Princeton played the balance of the game under protest. The league officials will return their report within ten days, after the protest and Harvard's plea have been filed...
...Boston Red Sox, still in the process of rebuilding, are likely to get into the first division. The prospects of the Philadelphia Athletics will depend largely on the success of 72-year-old Manager Connie Mack's experiment of turning his star first-baseman. Jimmy Foxx, into a catcher. Probable tail-enders: the aging Senators, the dispirited St. Louis Browns, the consistently feeble Chicago White...