Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to be leading homerun hitter as Ruth declined, was four behind Johnson. Last week in an exhibition game at Norfolk, Va. a pitched ball hit Gehrig on the head, knocked him unconscious. Anxious to maintain his record of playing in more consecutive games than any other player in major-league baseball history, Gehrig next day performed ably in his 1,415th...
...Talbott, a portly, indomitable woman of 70, once had notions of becoming a singer herself. Instead she married Harry Elstner Talbott. an engineer who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. They had seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons. Harold, a famed polo player, is a director of Chrysler Corp.. Thompson-Starrett and many another organization. Nelson ("Bud") Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There...
...Princeton's famed Bill Bonthron. He won the 1,500-meter run easily, with Penn's Venzke second. In the 800-meter race, he started his sprint late, suddenly found himself blocked by a line of runners across the track, wove through the field like a football player to beat Manhattan's Bill Ray by inches...
...operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David's most famed possession-three bearded baseball teams. Travelling about the country these teams, which include many an outmoded big league player, sometimes net $4,000 in a season. Last week the House of David's Eastern team was in the news. In Federal Court in Manhattan, the House of David was seeking an injunction against one Louis Murphy of Spring Valley, Ill., accusing him of unfairly competing with the House...
Lester Stoefen of Los Angeles, the nation's third ranking player and indoor champion, made his cup debut by beating the veteran Canadian internationalist...