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...most interest to the hot-stovers were the trades the managers cooked up. Most active trader was the New York Giants' Bill Terry. After making an even-Stephen swap with the Chicago Cubs (Bartell, Leiber, Mancuso for Demaree, Jurges, O'Dea) at the minor-league meeting the week before, the Giants paid the Washington Senators $20,000 (plus two players) for hard-hitting Zeke Bonura. then picked up a few more players in the lobby of the Waldorf. Most outstanding trade of the week was the Detroit Tigers' acquisition of Pitcher Freddy Hutchinson, 19, of the Seattle...
...game was to be called at the end of the inning. And he hit the next Pirate pitch into the left field stands for the one and only hundred thousand dollar home run in baseball history. The other day reporters asked him when he would name substitute O'Dea as starting catcher, since he himself had two sprained fingers on his throwing hand. He replied that he would push in the teeth of the writer who said O'Dea would play today. O'Dea may have to catch this afternoon, but Gabby Hartnett, active or inactive, has roused the cheers...
Stage Manager P. J. Carolan, in playing Fluther Good, presents an ordinary, ignorant, proud Dublin tenement-dweller with splendid vividness. M. J. Dolan is Uncle Peter Flynn, and amiable old man made the pathetic butt of a Socialist's humor. That socialist, played by Denis O'Dea, is reduced to pillaging and playing cards, nervously squatting on the floor of an attic, because he will not participate in a futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people...
...Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the Royal Intelligence Corps (John Loder) both dedicated to preserving British law & order, have captured a pair of important emissaries from Sinn Fein headquarters but their lorry is hijacked by a mysterious local Sinn Fein chieftain named Commandant O'Dea (Niall MacGinnis). Neither suspects that O'Dea is the high spirited young brother of Maureen Elliot (Antoinette Cellier), the Irish girl with whom both are in love. Maureen does not suspect either, until Commandant O'Dea is surprised on a tip given by an informer, shot by Captain...
Wisconsin alumni were given a rare Homecoming. In the stands as guest of honor was Patrick John O'Dea, Wisconsin captain in 1898 and 1899, often considered the greatest kicker the game ever developed. Most prodigious feat: in the 1898 game against Northwestern, played in a raging blizzard, he sent a drop-kick between goalposts 62 yd. away. Originally an Australian rugby player, O'Dea disappeared in 1919, was supposed to have joined Australian troops, been killed in action in France. Two months ago in California he revealed his identity to newshawks, explained his assumption of another name...