Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Full-page photographs of the "camera study" type gave effective close-ups of a locomotive's cylinders spewing steam, of the sousaphone ("oom-pah") horn player at the county fair...
...three-game series with the Brooklyn Robins, the first 1 to 0 in 10 innings, with Hallahan of St. Louis pitching hitless ball for seven innings against Dazzy Vance, who allowed only seven hits; the second on a two-bagger made in the ninth by Pinchhitter Andy High, a player once released by Brooklyn as not good enough; the third 4-3, principally through the steady pitching of Spitballer Burleigh Grimes. With the pennant practically won, the Cardinals then went to Philadelphia, sent Flint Rhem to the pitcher's mound. A few days before in Manhattan, Pitcher Rhem, scheduled...
Most notable thing about the U. S. professional tournament at Forest Hills last week was the ease with which Kozeluh and Richards came through their matches to the final round. They put out well-known professionals from all parts of the U. S. as easily as these same players could defeat the women and children pupils by whom they earn their living. Even in the semifinal round neither had any trouble. Kozeluh eliminated famed chop-stroking Howard Kinsey of San Francisco, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3. Richards took Harvey Snodgrass 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. Critics, believing Richards...
William Tatem Tilden II has lorded over the .U. S. tennis world pretty much to his liking for the past ten years. From time to time he has knuckled under to the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, but never has an individual player or official flouted his prestige. Last week at Forest Hills, L. I., during the national men's singles championship matches he suffered more than one setback...
...might have been a well-documented, thoughtful, but overlong play. Playwright Hugh Stange (Veneer, Fog-Bound) apparently has a talent for the sort of literary clairvoyance which goes well in novels, but he lacks the ability to condense, solidify and invigorate his material for dramatic presentation. Only a superior player like Otto Kruger (The Game of Love & Death, Karl & Anna), whose Barrymorose features were used to great success in The Royal Family, could have succeeded in interpreting the nuances of Playwright Stange, breathing the breath of life into the character of a lovable, shy Brooklyn doctor...