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...rivals four times, twice on each one's court. Last week Stanford, apparently the best team in, its Conference and one of the best in the country, beat California at Berkeley, 36-to-32, in a game featured by the fact that its 6 ft. 3 in. forward, Hank Luisetti, whom Coach John Bunn calls the greatest player in the history of the game, was held to 15 points. In nine Conference games, of which Stanford has lost only one, to the University of Southern California, and in a preConference transcontinental tour, on which Stanford won seven games...
...Congressman's trade-paper in which lobbyists will insert paid advertising to catch the legislative eye. Taxpayers, too, would have an interest in knowing, day by day, exactly what their elected representatives were doing in Washington's halls. Publisher with this notion was brisk young Henry Hayes ("Hank") Stansbury Jr., onetime New York American reporter and Paris correspondent for Universal Service. Subscription price: $15 for six months, free to Senators and Representatives. Competition in the field of specialized legislative reporting is David Lawrence's United States News, once the United States Daily...
...Manager Cochrane in August has pitched two successive shutouts. The team's fielding average is .979 compared to .974 last year. Its batting average is 289, exactly the same as the Cubs . Both the Tigers and the Cubs have topnotch infields. The Tigers have a super-star Hank Greenberg, on first base. Their pitching ace, Schoolboy Rowe a lanky Arkansan like Lon Warneke last year won 16 games in a row. Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore, in Mickey Cochrane the Tigers possess not only...
...promptly diminished to the danger point when Rookie Clydell Castleman, who had won eight games, lost two, broke his hand in batting practice. One major reason for the Giants' success so far this season, despite overconfidence and bad luck, has been their large, placid, blond centre fielder, Harry ("Hank") Leiber, whom any consensus of experts would name as the outstanding rookie of the year. Discovered by one-time Giant Pitcher Arthur Nehf, Leiber, 23-year-old son of a Phoenix, Ariz, advertising man, joined the team in 1933, went to Jersey City, Memphis and Nashville for two years...
...present Princeton lineup is a fixture and there is about as much chance of another man crashing his way into the company of Dave Roberts, Hank Roberts, Stew Ranch, Pete Cook, Dev Warner, Captain Chevy Echeverria, Al Edwards, Killer Cooks, and Cox Peanut MacRae as the Princeton Varsity has of winning at Poughkeepsie (where it is not entered...