Word: handler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baketball, for example, has Paul Busse, a six-footer who learned the game at Newark Academy, ready to step in and replace Giles Scofield, Princeton's captain and high scorer in 1939. In fact Busse, a good hall handler, a fine shot and a digger for forty minutes, already has won for himself the pivot sport, making him the only Sophomore on the starting five that has been used to date...
Outside of Captain Charley Lutz at forward, an outstanding ball handler and shot, the starting five for the home squad will be composed entirely of Sophomores. Bill Webber at the other forward post, Bud Finegan at center, and Ed Buckley and Joe Romano at the guards were all members of last year's speedy Yardling five that ended the season with a record of twelve wins and two defeats...
...these six practice tilts Charley Lutz proved that only one word is applicable to him--inimitable. He is by all odds the cleverest ball handler to wear the Crimson spangles since the start of Wes Fesler's coaching regime here. In Captain Lupien the Varsity quintet has a dependable defensive player and a sterling competitor. He gave B.U's Solly Nechtem a tough fight, never allowing him to get a shot within the free-throw area, and Lupe held his Wesleyan foe scoreless...
...meantime he had gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy investigations under the name of William Johnson. As a side line he tried to get a man named Cohen a death sentence for murdering a chicken handler, Barnet Baff. But when an indictment against him for subornation of perjury in connection with the Cohen case was handed down, William Johnson disappeared. That...
...19th manager of the 62-year-old Cubs, 37-year-old Gabby Hartnett, in his 17 years, has played under six of them, has become a smart handler of pitchers, a shrewd observer of men. Even Dizzy Dean once admitted that Gabby Hartnett was the only baseballer that was "smarter than me." But astute Owner Wrigley, well aware of the fact that brilliant ball players seldom have been successful as managers, did not give fun-loving Catcher Hartnett a new contract with his new job until the Cubs had tucked away a few victories...