Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than .300. He has led his league in batting once, in home runs three times, in batting in runs five times. He has hit three home runs in one game three times and once he hit four. Last week, for the fourth time, he was voted the most valuable player in his league. In four previous World Series Gehrig has batted at the incredible figures of .348, .308, .545 and .529. An amiable, modest young Teuton with less taste for luxury than for the eels which his mother still fries in large batches for him, Gehrig lives in a small...
Heading the list of coaches as announced by Samborski comes the name of Bernard D. White '32, former Varsity player, who will be in charge of the Kirkland Deacons...
Their techniques are interesting and ingenious. Most perfectly developed is the art of ball stealing. While some minor disturbance such as boundary flag removal serves as distraction in a corner of the field, an unnoticed performer, armed with a pin, approaches a ball which a player has momentarily left unguarded, pierces a seam, shoves the deflating pellet under his shirt, and at a warning signal everyone stampedes for the fence...
...Lovet-Lorski promptly enlisted in the Grodno Hussars, for no other reason than that he liked their gaudy uniform. He was wounded twice, hospitalized in Odessa, soon found himself a personal aide-de-camp to Alexander Kerensky. On the rise of the Bolsheviks, "Lorochka" fled Russia as a cello player...
...Malcolm Holmes and has each year been steadily improving in calibre and performance. Any student who plays an orchestral instrument is urged to come at least to the first trials. If the instrument in question is something rather unique like a bassoon or an English horn, the player will be especially welcome...