Word: munro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haggott '35 and Vice-President John Cornell '35. Tonight at a special meeting of the club the following recently elected members will be initiated: David A. Barber '37, Spencer S. Beman, III '38, George H. Edgell, Jr. '37, Albert F. Gallatin '38, Norton Goodwin '38, Alfred T. Johnson '37, Munro L. Lyeth '37, Howard R. Patch, Jr. '38, Edward H. Turner...
According to legend, John A. Heydler, who last month retired as president of the National League, was the first man to keep batting, pitching and fielding averages. No. 1 contemporary baseball statistician is a one-legged, dyspeptic North Carolinian named Al Munro Elias. Started in 1917, the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau Inc. now supplies some 1,000 U. S. newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world...
...onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914. Sick with indigestion, he took time off from work to watch ball games, amused himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters...
Lean, dour, grey-haired, with black eyes, big ears and dark lines of concentration on his face, Al Munro Elias still spends all his spare time watching baseball games, marking each play nervously on a special pad. The Bureau office, where his brother Walter is general manager, is equipped with an adding machine. Al Munro Elias has his clerks operate it, uses their results to compile his own statistics in his head. He does most of his work at his apartment, except when visiting baseball training camps each spring. In 1928, when he was 56, Al Munro Elias lost...
...minor roles in the play were well up to the standard set by the lead parts. The performance of Robert L. McKee '37 as a drunkon man who comes into the royal chambers as an unconscious prophet of fate, was particularly noticeable, as was that of Munro L. Lyeth '37 who was a young soldier reporting the appearance of a ghost to the queen...