Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis scouts recalled less glamorous days in the career of Pepper Martin. Son of an Irish father and an English mother, he rode to Greenville, Tex. on a freight car in 1924, got a job playing second base for $150 a month. Bought by the Cardinals for $2,500, he was schooled at Fort Smith, Syracuse, Houston and Rochester, minor league teams maintained by the St. Louis Cardinals as developing ground for young players. Tried as a substitute in 1928, he became a regular when St. Louis traded Centrefielder Taylor Douthit to Cincinnati last summer. Gay, generally grimy, accompanied...
...last week. It became aware that it was being pursued by a pack of hounds. The hounds were the Aiken Beagles, a well-bred pack of 14 couple owned and hunted by Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, famed horsewoman and mother of polo-playing Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Behind the hounds rode Mrs. Hitchcock and a granddaughter, eager for a morning's sport. Presently, the Phipps rabbit became aware that it was no longer being pursued, that the hounds, far behind now, were barking at something else. Had the rabbit been sufficiently curious to double on its tracks and see what...
Seaham's 80 heard Scot MacDonald to the end. They then voted that the Seaham Labor Party will not ask him to stand again for Seaham, still demands his resignation. Amid more women's cheers, the Prime Minister emerged, rode away from Seaham white-lipped, went to bed in a sleeping car bound for London. On the train, Scot MacDonald perused Scotch papers telling of savage riots by Scotland's working class...
...Dictator Carlos Ibanez seven weeks ago, he was the official candidate of the Government party; and, although Chileans cast the votes, it is the Government that counts the ballots. Moreover Candidate Montero had the picturesque support of nearly 50,000 guasos (cowboys) in flopping ponchos and silver spurs who rode in from the country districts, threatening destruction to anyone who should oppose...
...Farm polo team: a game, 6 goals to 1, from the Westwoods, on the Norwood, Mass, field of Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes. Ambassador Forbes, 61, home for vacation, rode Leap Year and Highball in Gay Farm's No. 2 position, made one goal, helped score three others...