Word: home-run
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...fifth game started with Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, who pitched the first game, back pitching for the Yankees, Cliff Melton for the Giants. This time the teams went on a home-run spree. In the second inning Yankee Outfielder Myril Hoag, who wears size 3½ shoes, cracked out a home run; and in the next inning Yankee Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, home-run champion of the major leagues, did likewise. Then Melvin Ott hit a homer for the Giants, brought in Dick Bartell to tie the score. In a fair way to lose his first Series game, Pitcher Gomez thereupon...
Captain Tom Bilodeau, a major disappointment at bat this season in comparison to last year's average which led the League, has apparently struck his stride and is batting .400 in the past three games, including a home-run smash in the first Dartmouth game with two on base to tie the score...
During the slugging spree of the last half of the second, each member of the Varsity nine except Shean tallied once. Buster MacTernen, and A1 Colwell led the Crimson at bat with a home-run and a single. Adding cheer to the Mitchell cause was the end of Captain Tom Bilodeau's batting slump, when the sharp hitting shortstop collected two singles and a double...
...with Manager Joe Cronin. then handed Philadelphia's Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") $200,000 plus two players for Slugger Foxx and Hurler Johnny Marcum. Next month Yawkey will probably pay Mack another $200,000 for Infielder McNair and Outfielder Cramer. With Foxx at first base, with his accurate home-run eye fixed on Fenway Park's short left-field fence, dopesters figure Boston the most likely outfit to topple the World Champion Detroit...
...rings; a crew race on Carnegie Lake in which Harvard's No. 4 is catching a crab; a Princeton swimmer with the enormous feet of his kind; a hockey game suggestive of a ballet; a baseball game in which a Princeton player has obviously just hit a home-run against Yale...