Word: hennessey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr. learned baseball on San Francisco's windy Funston playground, baseball kindergarten of big-league players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released...
...Chateau Pontet-Canet, a Medoc of the fifth and lowest ranking, is selling in Boston with much blowing of trumpets for three fifty a bottle; California claret, resembling dago red to an astonishing degree, is served ice cold for the bargain price of one fifty a bottle. Three star Hennessey, which is, after all, nothing extraordinary, is the equivalent of so much gold dust in price. The solutions for all this have been stated in myriads, but, quite naturally, nothing has been done about any of them. There has been muttering about publishing the cost per bottle to the wholesalers...
...proved one thing by their victory last week: that Chicago's hairy, hard-bitten George Martin Lott Jr. is the best doubles player in the U. S., if not in the world. Last week's doubles title was his fourth. He won in 1928 with John F. Hennessey, in 1929 and 1930 with John Hope Doeg. Saturnine, good-humored, Lott's doubles game is noteworthy for steadiness, tactical brilliance, unwillingness to be discouraged by his partner's errors-Stoefen made 80 in last week's three-hour final. Playing with John...
...played Lott & Shields. Lott is undoubtedly the ablest doubles player in the U. S. Van Ryn & Allison have been teamed so long that their games mesh perfectly. They ran out the first set easily at 6-3. Then Lott, who has won the doubles title three times (with John Hennessey, 1928; with John Doeg, 1929-30), began to rifle his forehands down the centre of the court and fool Allison with neatly concealed lobs to the backline. Lott & Shields won the next two sets 6-2, 11-9. Shields, with the strongest service of the four, was weakest...
...tennis. When Johnston retired, Richards turned professional, Williams grew too veteran to be brilliant for more than a day at a time, there appeared on the scene a great second-growth of younger players. These-George Lott, John Van Ryn, Berkeley Bell, Gregory Mangin, Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey; John Doeg-were the ones who caused the difficulty. All were young collegians, and they looked as much alike as so many agitated and disobliging Chinamen. One or two of them, it was first supposed, would emerge from the rest and become champions, but this never seemed to happen. U. S. tennis...