Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them into poison gas traps. But he knew that his enemy was brave and honorable, that such a massacre would have sown rebellion in Morocco for decades to come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some of his rattled followers climbed to a stronghold on the mighty Tizier Ouzine peak. French native troops dragged...
...never been satisfactorily answered: whether it is better to throw a shoe so that it makes i^ turns before reaching the stake or so that it makes if turns. The 71 men and ten women who lined up in Chicago last week for the World's Championship Horseshoe Pitching Tournament were about evenly divided. In twelve courts on the boardwalk overlooking the north lagoon at A Century of Progress, they pitched into boxes six feet square, filled with blue clay. In the qualifying rounds-high score for 100 shoes, with three points for ringers, one for a pitch within...
...women's contest was really unnecessary. Well-informed horseshoe pitchers are aware that the best women pitchers in the U. S. are the Schultz sisters of Harvey, Ill., Caroline and Charlotte, who have been exhibiting their skill in the Midwest, where horseshoe pitching principally thrives, for the last seven years. The Schultz sisters are plump, brown and stocky with bobbed brown hair. Caroline is 21, Charlotte 22. Since they took up their pastime in 1926, they have pitched horseshoes three times every day on their own courts and either of them will guarantee 200 ringers in 30 minutes. Once...
...professional men's baseball, Pitcher Mitchell was taught in Memphis, Tenn. by her next-door neighbor, Arthur C. ("Dazzy") Vance of the National League (long with Brooklyn, now St. Louis). She has made as much as $500 a week in exhibition games. Last week she signed to pitch at $1,000 a month for the able, bewhiskered House of David team of Benton Harbor, Mich., which tours the East and Midwest in sum mer, carries a $40,000 lighting rig for night games. Four hours before a scheduled court hearing to determine whether he was too feeble-minded...
Somebody in your neighborhood at home will have told you about the park's bears. There are some 700 black and silver-tipped grizzlies this year, so you are bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious bears, go to Katamai National Monument, Alaska, rivaled as a game range only by Belgian Congo's gorilla preserve.) There are more bison (1,000) and elk (10,000) in the park than the mountainous area could support in the winter if hunters did not kill...