Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training-camp news to assure them that the 1937 major-league season would start in Boston (Bees v. Phillies) and Washington (Senators v. Athletics) April 19, one day before the other teams start functioning. Meanwhile last week, 16 major-league teams, moving north from their camps in Florida, Cuba, Texas, Louisiana. Mexico and Southern California, were winding up their series of exhibition games while baseball experts, governed by ancient tradition, predicted how the teams would stand when the 1937 season ends...
...attention from the recruit players who usually make most training-camp news. Most remarkable rookies of the year appeared to be Giant Pitcher Carl Hubbell's young Brother John, who showed promise while the Giants were mysteriously losing a string of early games to semi-pro teams in Cuba; Yankee Outfielder Joe Di Maggio's older Brother Vince who tried out at third base with the Boston Bees; and a 19-year-old St. Louis Cardinal catcher named Arnold ("Mickey") Owen. About Brother Di Maggio one school of thought says that he is a longer hitter than...
...When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given a 6?-per-hr. raise. Reason: nearly 100 Electras have been sold in the U. S., Rumania, Poland, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico and England...
...nature is Angler Heilner's province. He has worked for the American Museum of Natural History; indeed it was while investigating a new finch, a rail and a wren for them that he discovered for sportsmen the tarpon of Cuba, in the Encantado (Enchanted) River. His fishing lexicon is shot richly through with biological side glances. It is interesting to know that the jutla (arboreal rat) of Cuba is that island's only native mammal, discovered by Columbus; that the weakfish which spawn in Peconic Bay do so without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north...
...Spanish Admiral Pascual Cervera, handicapped by wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic, straight through the operations centre of an over whelmingly superior U. S. fleet set to catch him, and safe into harbor at Santiago, Cuba without once sighting or being sighted by a U. S. warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley had ventured close enough...