Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catcher Clarence Robinson of Orange, N. J. was vexed one day last week. The twelve dogs he had impounded had all got free. From dog-catching he turned to boy-catching. Fred Martine, 15, admitted that he and his friend John Stozink. 15, had done it. When Fred Martine explained to the judge, "We were sorry for the dogs," the judge let Fred Martine go free...
James ("Jimmy") Archer, oldtime famed catcher for the Chicago Cubs, is now a buyer in Chicago's Union Stockyards. Last week he saw two men tumble unconscious from the driver's seat of a truck whose cargo of hogs he was appraising. Aware that they had been riding in an enclosed cab, Buyer Archer guessed they had carbon monoxide poisoning, applied prone pressure (artificial respiration), revived both men in a half hour. The National Safety Council pinned its President's Medal upon Jimmy Archer...
...field; F. E. Nugent '30 at third pase; C. L. Todd '26 at left field, and George Owen, Jr. '23, at the initial sack. J. P. Chase '28, captain of the alumni nine, will hold down the second base, while Assistant Dean Henry Chauncey '27 is to occupy the catcher's berth. F. B. Cutts '28, who as an undergraduate featured in four victories over Yale, is to twirl for the graduates, while E. R. Todd '29, and R. D. Sullivan '28 will play at right field and shortstop respectively...
Rookies. All big-league clubs have "farms" from which they draw new players. The Brooklyn Robins have a new farm at Hartford, Conn, in addition to their old one at Macon. But they acquired their most unusual 1931 rookie from the Oakland club, Pacific Coast League. He is Catcher Ernest Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck...
...rugby are similar to those of football, while others, with similar names, have special meanings. Below are listed definitions of the commoner terms of rugby lingo: a "fair-catch" is a catch made direct from a kick or throw forward (knock-on) by one of the opposing side. The catcher must immediately claim the same by making a mark with his heel at the spot where he made the catch. A "goal" is obtained by kicking the ball over the opponents' cross bar, from the field-of-play by any kick or drop kick except a kick-off or drop...