Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score was 2 to 0 for Chicago. Side-whiskered Guy Bush, who looks like a nervous villain in a melodrama, had been through the Yankee line-up once, pitching carefully, without allowing a hit. At the start of the fourth. Bush walked Combs. made Scwell ground out, frowned darkly when Ruth hit a whistling single to right. Gehrig, stamping his feet on the caked dust, waited till the count was two balls and two strikes. His bat met the next pitch, a Bush screwball, squarely. The ball traveled into the screaming right field bleachers for a homerun...
Second Game was a well-pitched battle between 23-year-old Lon Warneke of the Cubs, who won more games (22) in his first big league season than any other National League pitcher, and 22-year-old Vernon ("Goofy") Gomez, tall, lean, left-handed Yankee, who comes from Rodeo, Calif. Chicago got one run in the first, the Yankees two. When his teammates had tied the score in the third, Warneke walked Ruth and let Gehrig single. Then, to fill the bases for a force play, he walked Dickey. It was sound strategy but it did not work. Chapman, next...
...strike. The crowd squealed happily. Fat and cocky, Ruth faced the grandstand and held up one finger. After throwing two balls. Pitcher Root got over another strike. This time the players in the Cubs' dugout peered and chuckled. Still cocky, Ruth held up two fingers. The next pitch broke over the corner of the plate. Ruth swung at it. There was a crack. Centerfielder Johnny Moore started to run; then he stood still and watched the ball, a dwindling white spot against the blue sky, clear the ware fence and drop 436 ft. from the plate, one of the longest...
...Fortnight ago at the Arkansas Democratic State Convention, Senator Watson's rival Floor-leader. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, had just reached the high pitch of a speech when out flew his false upper teeth. Retiring to the wings, he reinserted the plate and asked: "Why didn't they laugh?" A friend: "You had them spell-bound...
...cracked under the tension. He pitched over the 28th green, came back too strong and missed his putt. Tempered in years of tournament playing, Somerville braced for a strong finish. What he needed was par golf and he played it. He stolidly took the 28th and the next two holes while Goodman, control gone, took 1 over pars for each. The next three they halved. At the 34th green Somerville holed out in one putt for a birdie 3. Goodman, short on his second shot, had to pitch on the green, take a brave par 4. They halved the next...