Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William H. Howe, Jr. '37 and Jerry LeR. Abrams '39 fanned, but then Maurice Sapienza '37, who otherwise pitched a superb game for Winthrop, got a streak of wildness and walked the next three men, forcing in a run and filling the bases. Clean-up man Charles W. Kessler '37 leaned on the next pitch with 250 pounds of muscle and cleared the bases with a triple, scoring on a single by Charles E. Carr...
...flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column of air in the flute vibrating. Flute tones are made by this vibrating air column, just as violin tones are made by a vibrating string. Their pitch, similarly, depends upon the length of the air column. If a flautist wants a high note, he shortens his air column by opening one of the flute holes nearest the mouthpiece...
...vicariously in his son. When Robert Feller was four, he and his father played catch behind the barn on the 360-acre Feller wheat farm. At 9, Robert Feller could throw a baseball 275 ft. At 13 he could do better than 350 ft.* At 14, he could pitch so fast that his father had a hard time catching the ball and once when the son's curve ball missed his glove, it cracked three of the father's ribs...
Coach Samborski's Yardlings will also open their home season today when they play Tufts Freshmen at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field. After its four-game vacation trip the '40 team should have the edge in experience over the Jumbos. John Woodward will pitch for the Crimson...
According to the rules the prize will go to "the person cleaving the course (the face) in the fewest number of strokes without incurring too many of the stated penalties for chopping off an ear lobe, or without, in a pitch of enthusiasm, severing the entire head from his body...