Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During this week both teams have won smashing victories in the Greater Boston League. The Independents whitewashed the Malcolm Hill Sports team 10-0, and the Tennis and Squash Shopmen lmitated the feat in trouncing the Arlington squad...
...into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism are that when the beams (actually wood) strike something they emit a hollow thump instead of a ringing clank, and that when the inevitable victim falls from the crane to his death, a ludicrous dummy is seen tumbling against the backdrop...
...including Pitcher Lefty Gomez had made at least one hit and one run. Baseball statisticians had compiled an even dozen new records. It was the biggest score and the worst beating in World Series history. Most brilliant individual performance was that of Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri. He duplicated a feat accomplished only once before in a World Series when, in the third inning, he made a home run with the bases full. Later, he shared with Catcher Bill Dickey the honor of equalling another all-time record, by driving in a total of five runs. Feeblest of the Giant pitchers...
...week voted the most valuable player in his league. First time he won this distinction was in 1933, when his earned run average - best index to a pitcher's ability - was 1.66 per game, lowest in the league. The pitching equivalent of Gehrig's four-home-run feat is a no-hit, no-run game. Hubbell achieved the only such game played in the major leagues in 1929. Left-handed pitchers, according to all baseball legend, lack control both on and off the diamond. Hubbell's secret is that he possesses control, in alarming quantities, under...
...them from continuing to draw away from the Cardinals and last year's pennant winner, the Chicago Cubs. With 14 games left to play last week, the Giants needed to win only 11 to take the National League pennant even though St. Louis accomplishes the next to impossible feat of winning all its remaining...