Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, 71, multimillionaire president of Ruppert Brewing Co., since 1915 owner of the world champion New York Yankees; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Jacob Ruppert, aged 13, was owner, manager, captain and second baseman of a baseball club. Son of a well-to-do Manhattan brewer with a home on Fifth Avenue, he made his players clean the cages of his private menagerie before he would bring the bat and ball down to the vacant lot where they played. He fired any player who struck out. For young Jake could not bear to see his team lose...
...attendance. The Yankees made the other clubs in the League look like seven dwarfs. Since 1921 they have won ten pennants, seven world championships. They won pennants as he wanted them to-early in the season. They won World Series in four straight games. The sport-pages' nickname Owner Ruppert liked best was "Four Straight Jake...
...mature glow, his idyll sets down a striking number of young Sassoon's unhappinesses. His parents' separation infected even the nursery with melancholy. His rich Aunt Rachel (the only Sassoon he remembers well), who lived in a gloomy mansion and was married to a paralytic (owner of the Sunday Times), went insane at her husband's funeral. Romantic Siegfried was alienated from his mechanically-minded brothers and schoolmates by his taste for poetry. At Marlborough he was bored. (His final report read: "No particular intelligence.") Cambridge, which he left in his second year, was even less congenial...
...Black Hawks, dual control will be novel, but a change of managers in midseason is nothing new. Owner Frederic McLaughlin, polo-playing millionaire coffee man, apparently has put great store in the old sport maxim, "Pan the players and can the coach." In 13 years he has canned ten managers-a record for major-league hockey. "He tried almost everyone except Irene Castle [his divorce-seeking wife]," one sportswriter commented...