Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers agreed that scarcely ever was there a more crucial pitch as Deacon hurler Dick Mudge tossed the fatal offering to Murphy. "Maybe I had my eyes closed," the Bellboy batsman said lost night. "I thought I was sighting along...
...third. Thus the Crimson went into the last of the seventh trailing 6-4. Johns and Lupien drew walks to open the inning, and a new Bruin Hurler, Devaney was summoned. Gannett bunted both men along, and then Gron dahl appeared at the plate to golf a low pitch over the second baseman's head and produce the tying markers...
Minus the services of several stars, the twice-beaten Holworthy softballers swarmed over Thayer, interdormitory league leaders, to the tune of 22-13 yesterday, slamming every pitch that John Fisher offered to the far corners of Soldiers Field...
Linking Depression and New Deal, the Chamber's dry, bespectacled president, 62-year-old George Harvey Davis of Kansas City, gave the pitch of this year's business hymn in his opening speech. Excerpt: "Back of all of the questions that will be brought before you for discussion during these three days lies a much larger question. It is whether business-the American system of business-is to endure or whether some other kind of system, is to take its place...
Just to keep the record straight, however, and in order to do justice to a friend, may I say that the quotation attributed to me, that Mayor Kelly is "a Charley McCarthy" who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood [but] aside from that . . . hasn't missed a pitch," was in reality written by Milton S. Mayer, Chicago's journalistic Puck and our star writer, in a recent issue of The Beacon. The quotation reflects my sentiments. . . . SYDNEY JUSTIN HARRIS Editor The Beacon Chicago...