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...bolster up a shaky end squad that is now his number one problem, Dick Harlow yesterday shunted Sophomore Hank Vander Eb, husky blocking back, to left wing on the B team...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Vander Eb Goes to End Post as Gridders Scrimmage for Full Hour in Light Drizzle | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

Some said "The Kid" had been overworked by the turnstile-wooing Indians; others said he had become quaky on his pinnacle of fame. Some said he was bat-shy because one of his wild speedballs had almost killed Hank Leiber; others said Feller was just a flash in the pan. Even at the end of the season, when the Cleveland papoose wound up in a blaze of glory-fanning 18 Detroit Tigers in one game for a new major-league record and topping both leagues with a total of 241 strikeouts-the experts still hesitated to call Feller great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stellar Feller | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week, as college baseball reached the homestretch of its 80th season, major-league scouts reviewed the year's outstanding players. No. 1 pitcher of the season has been Fordham's Hank Borowy, son of a New Jersey hat manufacturer, who has been defeated only once in 13 starts-and is Fordham's best batter to boot. Against Yale last week Right-hander Borowy performed in routine fashion: he struck out ten men, allowed only four hits, shut out his opponents 5-to-0 for Fordham's 16th victory of the season. In three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Baseball | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

JUDAS, INCORPORATED-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). While tracking down the murderer of a Connecticut industrialist, case-hardened Hank Hyer comes between two rival strikebreaking agencies. Tops for the tough type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...visitors have a classy infield with Johnny Piurek at first, Captain Camille Durand at second, Art Duplessis at short, and Dick Blasser at third. Crimson mentor Stahl rates Blasser as one of the most promising intercollegiate hot-corner custodians in New England. Another football star, Hank Quellette cavorts in the center garden, flanked by Bruno Malinowski and Henry Giardi. HARVARD HOLYCROSS Johns, 2b. c.f. Ouellette Gannett, c.f. l.f., Giardi Grondahl, 3b. r.f., Malinowski Lupien, 1b. 3b., Blasser Lovett, l.f. c., Barry Tully, r.f. 1b., Piurek Fulton, c. 2b., Durand Keyes, s.s. s.s., Duplessis Curtiss, p. p., Delaney

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen Will Face Crusaders Tomorrow On Soldiers Field | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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