Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simone Boccanegra last autumn Tibbett opened the Manhattan opera season (TIME, Nov. 28). an honor the Metropolitan has given to only one other male singer, the late great Tenor Caruso. Tenors are naturally the heroes of most operas just as pitchers are the heroes of ball games. Baritones, like catchers, have to knock homeruns to be noticed and their chances at conspicuous parts come less often than a catcher's turn at bat. Tibbett's homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields...
...laugh at William Mill Butler's letter about the "dog nuisance." Supposedly, all homeless dogs go eventually to the pound, where they are put to death. Before being rounded up by the dog catcher, they have deprived no one of food, having fed on garbage rations delectable to the dog palate, which no child would...
...Warner football better than Wizard Warner), has an amazingly complicated attack, based not on power but on a multiplicity of spinners, reverses, lateral passes. Colgate's most noticeable linemen are Captain Bob ("Kewpie") Smith, a 172-lb. left guard and Left End Anderson, a graceful and adroit pass-catcher who often finds four men assigned to keep him under cover. Quarterback Charlie Soleau has huge thick legs which have this season enabled him to average an 11-yd. gain per play. Colgate statistics for the season: 99 first downs to opponents...
...Toledo Roger Bresnahan, oldtime (1902-15) National League baseballer, onetime owner of the Toledo "Mud Hens," rated by John McGraw as all-time greatest major league catcher, took a $100-a-month position as guard at Toledo's workhouse...
...took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display the head as proof of his prowess...