Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Named for Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681-1741), Danish navigator, ancestor of Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring, 63, able Des Moines diagnostician, "dean of Iowa physicians," much sought dinner guest, skilled croquet-player, recently a nominee for the presidency of the American Medical Association...
...Since two-thirds of the players in the leagues now come up from college baseball teams, that branch of the sport can't be ignored," he said, "I don't know of any player, though, who has come right from college baseball and begun to play big-league ball immediately. A lot depends on experience, in addition to latent ability. There is a fellow named Kane on the Pirates who will be a great player some day but just now he is throwing games away occasionally and then again winning some for the team...
...President, elected to succeed Dr. Gary next year, is Dr. Dean De Witt Lewis, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University, surgeon-in-chief to Johns Hopkins Hospital. When Dr. Lewis, 57, was a Kewanee, Ill boy his great ambition was to be a professional ball player. He became a proficient pitcher. While he studied medicine at Rush Medical College he spent almost every free afternoon at ball games. The great pleasure of his interneship was the free passes which he received for tending the minor injuries of Chicago players...
Other candidates for phenomenon are: Australia's Jack Crawford, fireball player of the 1928 and 1930 Davis Cup matches; England's Frederick J. Perry, unbeaten ping pong player, Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin and C. R. D. Tuckey, British Army mystery man, a harder hitter than the other Englishmen...
...Nancy Seay Lee, 17, died in Oklahoma City General Hospital, whither she had been taken "about dead." Frank Lee University of Oklahoma football player! to whom she had been secretly married! said she had been aborted by Dr. Richard E. Thacker...