Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter trading season, Tom Yawkey opened his purse again and pushed his investment in the Red Sox across the $2,000,000 line. For a sum estimated at $150,000, he bought from the Washington Senators their star shortstop and manager, Joe Cronin. It was, according to Owner Clark Griffith, an historic high price to pay for a professional baseballer...
...Pittsburgh Pirates in 1924. He played for Pittsburgh in 1926 and 1927, went back to the minor leagues as an incorrigibly poor batter. A Senator scout rediscovered him at Kansas City in 1928. In two years his batting average jumped from .243 to .346. After the 1932 season, Owner Griffith made him manager of the team. When the Senators won the pennant las year, Joe Cronin was as much a hero to Washington as Bucky Harris, "boy manager" of the world-champion Senators had been nine years before...
...parallel really lay between the Edwards case and that of Chester E. Gillette; of Cortland, N. Y. which Author Dreiser had drably copied into his book, even to giving his hero the same initials?Clyde Griffith. It was 28 years ago that Chester Gillette, raised in a sternly religious atmosphere, got a job as foreman in a rich relative's collar factory. He took up with a pretty factory girl, Grace Brown, but, by the time she became pregnant, Gillette, socially ambitious, had been taken up by another girl, an "heiress." He took Grace Brown to Big Moose Lake...
Married. Joe Cronin, 27, manager of the Washington Senators; and Mildred June Robertson, 26, adopted daughter of Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators; in Washington...
...annual dinner given the coaches by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, Major John W. Griffith, Commissioner of the Western Conference, was the principal speaker. The dinner took place last night at the Varsity Club and was attended by the coaches, Faculty, and members of the H.A.A...