Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efficiency of the Tigers' current campaign for revenge was another problem which last week remained unsolved. One of the few known World Series factors was that this year the Tigers are stronger than they were in 1934. The team has gained confidence and cohesion. A new pitcher, Roxie Lawson, bought by 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...
...Amateur-in the single season of 1930, he accomplished a feat which seemed clearly incomparable. At Cleveland last week, another golfer accomplished a feat which, if not quite the equal of Jones's "grand slam," was definitely comparable to it and in some respects even more remarkable. William Lawson Little Jr. of San Francisco won the U. S. Amateur Championship for the second year in a row, after winning the British Amateur...
...brawny, curly-haired, snub-nosed young man who learned golf on a course built on the site of a Chinese graveyard near Tientsin, where his father was stationed as an Army officer, Lawson Little has given so much time to his game that at 25 he is still a Stanford undergraduate. His salient talent as a golfer is power. Where his game differs from that of most long hitters is that he utilizes the advantage his wood shots give him by superlative iron play and putting...
...strange young Texan named Joe Ezar astounded a Scottish gallery less by his qualifying scores (73 & 75) than by the way he made them, wearing a beret which he tossed in the air after good shots, scarcely glancing at his putts, wisecracking loudly to his caddy. Colonel William Lawson Little, watching his famed son & namesake try to win his second major British title of the season, found that a $1,200 letter of credit and several cashable checks had been extracted from his hip pocket by a thief who "had the impertinence to button it up again...
...Glendinning; Prentiss Godfrey; G. H. Gregg; D. R. Griffin; H. B. Grisweld; A. H. Hall; Leonard Hammer; J. G. Harder; John Hay; Bernard Helfat; R. A. Herzberg; S. V. Kean; H. S. Kernan; Robert Kernan; D. B. Kitchel; E. B. Knowlton; Norman Lanz; J. N. Latorraca; Ralph Lawson; Maurice Lazarus; B. G. Leighton; G. S. Lewis; A. H. Litt; F. M. Ludden; Kenneth MacLeish; D. N. McKay; J. S. Munroe; J. D. Ogilby; E. H. Osgood; Alfonse Ossorio; H. R. Patch, Jr.; John Parcell; E. C. Reppun; E. F. Ringer; F. M. Rivinus; R. E. Rogers; H. P. Rosen...