Word: handers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Series record by making eight assists. The Tigers won the second, 8-to-3, in an icy wind. Next day, in Chicago, the Cubs' demoralization ended in the nth inning, 6-to-5 for the Tigers. When, behind the expert pitching of Alvin Crowder. a seasoned, crafty right-hander who had pitched in two World Series before but never won a game, the Tigers took the fourth game, 2-to-1, on Chicago errors, gamblers made them a 6-to-1 favorite. Needing three games in a row to win, the Cubs took the fifth, like the first...
...Yankees are indisputably the best pitchers in their leagues. If every seat in the Polo Grounds is sold next week it will be because the crowd wants to see them pitch against each other, as they may do in the next World Series. Giant Hubbell, long lean left-hander who last year pitched 46 consecutive scoreless innings two weeks after he pitched an 18-inning game against St. Louis which the Giants won1-to-0, has been recognized as the National League's No. 1 pitcher for the past three seasons. Last year he was voted the League...
...School officials bumped their heads in the scramble to retrieve it. The waiting line bunched, surged. The portly trustee apologized to the diploma's recipient. "Congratulations," said he hoarsely for the 343rd time. He pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his brow, turned to the diploma hander. "Nearly finished?" he whispered. "Almost," whispered the diploma hander. Finally the 386th & last student bobbed up, got his handshake, his grin, his congratulation, his diploma. Sighing relief, Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan sat down...
...evening was British Major A. Dennis Pearce, 38, a left-handed War aviator, slender, agile and amazingly cool under attack. He won all four of his bouts, personally accounted for half the challengers' victories. He trounced (5-to-4) 26-year-old Hugh Alessandroni, another left-hander who had won the U. S. foil championship week before. Best showing made by the U. S. team was the performance of Warren A. Dow, who won three bouts, lost only to Pearce. Each team won eight bouts. The score: 16-to-16. Epee. It takes the closest scrutiny of four judges...
...audition was held Tuesday night at the home of the Hander and Haydn Society after which the announcement was made by the officers that Millar according to the voice committee, has the deepest voice they have heard in several years...