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...Princeton and lasted until the eventful third inning, when the Crimson batters blasted him out of the box with six consecutive hits. After Loughlin had rolled to the box, Adams was safe on a scratch infield single to Neel. Then in quick succession Ware followed with a Texas leaguer that dropped in short left and Thacher scorched a two-bagger which bounded in to the right-field stands. Adams crossed the plate but Ware was held on third by the two-base rule. With the infield playing close, Nevin cracked out a single to Gerhart to bring in both Ware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE VANQUISHES STRONG TIGER TEAM IN 6-5 ENCOUNTER | 4/20/1933 | See Source »

Protesting against publication of an aesthetic advertisement, Ruth Hale, prominent Lucy Stone Leaguer (maiden name users) wrote a warm letter to The Nation, signed it "Mrs. Heywood Broun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Like Thornton Niven Wilder but more so, Virginia Woolf is a widely-read if not popular writer whose public is largely made up of people who have not the vaguest idea what she is driving at. Though many a Junior Leaguer felt called upon to rave over Orlando, though some who bought or borrowed it managed to wade through The Waves, few in any league would have chosen to make their enthusiasm coherent. Virginia Woolf is certainly no labyrinthine monster, monstrous clever though she be, but her readers, like a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, are apt to mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woolf, Woolf | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...Other major league players who have made four home runs in a game: Bobby Lowe of Boston in 1894, Ed Delehanty of Philadelphia in 1896. A minor leaguer, Leftfielder Buzz Arlett of the Baltimore Orioles, hit four home runs last week in a game against the Reading Keys which the Orioles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Born, To Frederick Ogden Nash, word-wangler (Hard Lines), and Frances Leonard Nash, onetime Baltimore Junior Leaguer; a daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Linell Chenault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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