Word: homerun
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...series of brilliant biographies ornamenting his chief theme: true art should be representational and born of a passion to interpret life. Such a standard automatically condemns abstractionists like Picasso or Braque whom Mr. Craven damns with glee. Most readers will find his statements as exhilarating and convincing as a homerun. Art dealers and Francophile connoisseurs will be less pleased with what he has to say. Examples : ". . . After 60 years of exploitation, the best examples of Impressionism [Manet, Seurat, Whistler, Pissarro, Monet] are controlled by the original underwriters, Durand-Ruel, which firm slowly releases its enormous stock at propitious moments. . . . Actually...
...Petersburg, Fla. last week, the score was 3-to-2 in favor of the New York Yankees, playing an exhibition game against the Boston Braves. In the eighth inning, Boston's famed Shortstop Rabbit Maranville, who in the fifth inning had hit his first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie...
...York Yankees. Only change in the lineup that won the pennant for Washington last year was at right field, Jonathan Stone for old Goose Goslin. The Yankees had two rookie infielders. Babe Ruth planned, in what will doubtless be his last playing season, to make his 700th homerun, get his 2,000th base on balls. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington called Detroit the team to beat. Detroit's new Manager & Catcher Mickey Cochrane, bought for $100,000 from Philadelphia, was not so sure. He and his men lost two games in a row to the Athletics, generally dismantled last...
...Giants, he had a chance to break the National League record of 44 consecutive scoreless innings, made by Pitcher Ed Reulbach of the Chicago Cubs in 1908. The first batter hit a fly. Next man up was Wally Berger, one of the National League's two leading homerun hitters. Hubbell struck him out. Randy Moore, the next batter, singled, but when the Giants' Shortstop Ryan caught a line drive from the next batter Hubbell's record was safe. To make it safer, he pitched 1⅔ more scoreless innings and the crowd had begun to think seriously...
Aged 39. fatter than he used to be and nearing the end of the most amazing career in baseball history. Babe Ruth now can be sure of performing his homerun specialty only on great occasions. Such an occasion presented itself last week in Chicago where all-star teams representing the National and American Leagues played what was advertised as "The Game of the Century." Ruth came to bat in the third inning. Pitcher Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals, wild in the second inning when the American League scored its first run. had already given Detroit's Gehringer...