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...pitcher's mound, Charles Devens '32, W. H. MacHale '31, W. K. Page. '31, and B. H. Ticknor '31, all letter men, seem to be the most promising candidates. Reginald Fincke '32 and J. E. Sheldon '32 are the outstanding contestants for the catcher's position, with S. L. Batchelder '31 still engaged in hockey...
...site of the excavations carried on by Harvard University in conjunction with the American School of Oriental Research is in the northern section of Iraq close to the present city of Kirkuk. This place which for 3500 years has been a deserted mound was once the flourishing city of Nuzi, the center of a community of people both commercially and artistically minded. Here for the past three years excavations have been going on under the respective directorship of Edward Cheira, Robert H. Pfleffer, and R. F. S. Starr, during which time sufficient area has been laid bare to give...
...made in the ninth by Pinchhitter Andy High, a player once released by Brooklyn as not good enough; the third 4-3, principally through the steady pitching of Spitballer Burleigh Grimes. With the pennant practically won, the Cardinals then went to Philadelphia, sent Flint Rhem to the pitcher's mound. A few days before in Manhattan, Pitcher Rhem, scheduled to pitch against Brooklyn, had disappeared. Said he when found: "Bandits kidnaped me. They were gamblers, betting on Brooklyn. They pointed their guns at me and made me drink raw liquor for two days. It was awful!" Recovered from his ordeal...
Neither coach has announced definitely the starting batteries for today. For Harvard, Devens will probably take the mound with Batchelder catching. The Elis will start either Jennison, Rudd, or Taylor in the box with Aldrich or Maine behind...
...Wagon Mound, N. M., it was Friday evening, Sabbath eve for Charles Geist, tailor, and Joe Lowenthal, haberdasher, Orthodox Jews of Paterson, N. J. They were motoring to Los Angeles where they hoped to start in business. Their cult forbids traveling on the Sabbath. They stopped over at Wagon Mound. That Friday night Charles Geist dreamed that he was dead. So moved was he that next morning he broke another Sabbath law. He wrote his wife Gussie of his morbid dream. A few hours later a tornado swept through Wagon Mound, killed...