Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into Pawhuska-Osage capital- choose a sunny spot at a principal intersection and curl up on the sidewalk to sleep, a heavy blanket keeping off flies and scorching sunrays. His dogs would curl up about him to doze or to snarl and snap at passersby. Once, the city dog-catcher captured his pets and shot them. John disappeared for a few weeks, then returned to town with more dogs than ever...
Coach Fred Mitchell is sending his strongest combination into the field, headed by Ed Ingalls on the mound, and marked by the return to action of catcher Al Colwell and rightfielder Jim Sullivan...
Young Bill Hutton was also in the Detroit office but the powerhouse there was Jerry McCarthy, whose clientele included a good representation in the Detroit Tigers. Last month SEC summoned Manager Mickey Cochrane to describe how he bought 1,000 shares of Tack, but the famed catcher had evidently found the game too fast to follow. Asked where he had been in November 1935, he said he thought he had been in Wyoming but that might have been in October. "I travel around so much I don't know where I am half the time," he apologized...
...STORY OF SECRET SERVICE-Richard Wilmer Rowan-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Fat (720-page), fascinating florilegium of spies, real and apparent, "going up and down the backstairs of history" since Moses' day; busiest, softest footsteps, says Spy-Catcher Rowan, were England...
...duke from the stately lady, and then tries to get her steel man too, and who ogles and languishes in the voluptuous fashion burlesqued by Miss West. But Leon Belieres endears himself to a new audience as the roly-poly chocolate-maker, the ambitious father of the duke-catcher, whose garrulity and faux pas are always impairing his daughter's chances...