Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball and of a 1929 ball to show that the 1929 ball contains a layer of rubber not found in its 1919 ancestor, Julian W. Curtiss, Spalding president, wrote to the Telegram: "Let me assure you that the life of the ball has not been changed since 1920." He left the inference, satisfying to sticklers, that it had been changed between...
...lost. Pitcher Grimes of Pittsburgh had the same record. Part of the Grimes effectiveness results from the fact that he throws a spitball.* Some years ago the spitball was barred except for pitchers who had already specialized in it. There are now hardly any oldtime spitballers left, so Pitcher Grimes has something of an advantage over hitters to whom the spitball is strange and disturbing. But Pitcher Grimes has also an excellent and legal curve, long years of experience, an aggressive disposition, an acute intelligence...
...Brooklyn was leading both leagues with an average of .404. Batter Herman's record is all the more remarkable in that he is practically a one-handed hitter. Just before bat touches ball he takes his right hand off the handle and is swinging only with his left arm at the moment of contact...
...went from Pittsburgh to Manhattan in 1912 to become vice president of National Bank of Commerce. Here he had ample opportunity to study the workings of a Big Bank of the merging type.* Recognizing the power & potency of the Big Bank, Mr. Howell realized also that its very bigness left room for a smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital stock and formed Commercial National. It was designed...
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, left his cigarets and matches at a Londonderry colliery pit mouth, put on overalls, descended torch in hand to the lowest coal seam. Said he to the miners: "I was born a monarch not because I chose to be but because it had to be. It is as necessary for me to work as it is for any other man. Your Prince of Wales and I are workers...