Word: recruiters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warneke, Lee, French, Davis and Carleton. Weakness of the team so far has been the failure of Outfielder Augie Galan to bat as well as he did last year. The Cardinals have Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, generally rated the best pitcher in baseball, and, at second base, the ablest recruit in the league, Stuart Martin, who is not to be confused with their famed third baseman. Pepper Martin, now playing at right field...
...played in this year has made him one of the five leading batsmen of the National League and its most spectacular rookie since Dizzy Dean. The other was Joseph Paul Di Maggio, 21-year-old outfielder of the New York Yankees, the American League's most sensational recruit since Ty Cobb...
...lighter-minded, the War Office has established in the main recruiting depot at Great Scotland Yard a line of male mannequins. These stalwart young men are exhibited in the full dress uniforms of a dozen famed regiments. A bashful recruit can shuffle about and decide for himself whether he would look better in the gaudy stockings of the Gordon Highlanders, the befrogged jackets of the Royal Horse Artillery, the white-plumed bearskin of the Royal Scots Greys, the brass helmets of the Royal Dragoons. Those who choose humbler regiments are handed new undress or "walking out'' uniforms that...
...reputable school today. The boy in question would be in for a shock as far as Springfield College is concerned (if admitted at all) to find that, in the four years, he will have to get a regular college course besides his professional subjects. Springfield College does not recruit freaks; nor does it accept muscles as a substitute for brains. Applicants are tested as to aptitudes and then matriculated into one of the three divisions: Liberal Arts, Social Science or Physical Education...
...week, it became apparent that this exclusive little cabal was henceforth to be enlarged by "Patty." Patty is Patricia Jane Berg, a snubnosed, redhaired, 18-year-old from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe of female golfers since the original appearance of "Glenna" herself. Last week, like most of her colleagues, Patty was in Ormond Beach, Fla., for the Women's South Atlantic Championship. She took the qualifying medal with a 73, four strokes under women...