Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire, Senator George Higgins Moses was easily renominated by Republicans. In November he will oppose Democrat Fred Brown, onetime Governor, now Public Service Commissioner. Their race is expected to be nip & tuck as Nominee Brown is an extraordinary vote catcher...
Died- Leonore Cawker, 58, Milwaukee's famed dogcatcher, vice president of American Humane Society; in Milwaukee. A rich spinster, she spent her life and fortune in succoring stray animals, was appointed official dog-catcher in 1915 at $500 annual salary, next year obtained a raise to $1.200. Her best publicized act was saving the fire department's horses .from being killed for fox farm food when the department was motorized. Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington...
Devens' superlative twirling has for- ced a change of catchers, as Sheldon, playing at first base earlier in the spring has been obliged to become the receiving end again of the Devens-Sheldon battery of last year's fame. Fincke was Coach Mitchell's early season choice for catcher, and has now taken the first sack job on trade, where he has kept up his steady good work, and has helped to make up for Lupien's failings...
...first frame Brown put over a run when Harris scored on Woods wild throw to Fincke, who has exchanged his catcher's berth for Sheldon's customary first sack job. Lupien evened the score in the next inning on Fincke's infield drive. The Bruins tallied twice in the fourth, with the help of two singles and a criminal overthrow by Sheldon but Harvard got a brace of runs in the sixth, resulting from a neat drive by McCaffrey. Harris opened up for the Providence nine in the eighth inning, rolling a grounder through Mays at second, and scored...
...stick," were his first instructions, for the inmates were desperate men, and their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...