Word: rothrock
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Larry French limited the Cards to five safeties, but three of these were bunched in the first inning for the three St. Louis runs. Rothrock got on base on Vaughans' low throw. Frisch doubled, Rothrock taking third. Rothrock scored on Medwick's single, Frisch going to third. Collins doubled, scoring Frisch, and putting Medwick on third. Virgil Davis long fly to center scored Medwick...
Well into the stormy afternoon three flying officers-George F. McDermott, James H. Rothrock. William S. Pocock Jr. -took off from Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. for Langley Field, Va. to pick up mail planes. Their amphibian was not in the air ten minutes before it became unmanageable in the stiff wind. They alighted in a heavy sea off Rockaway Point. When a Coast Guard and a Navy destroyer steamed up, the amphibian had drifted off into the dusk. The Navy boat finally picked up the flyers five miles away. Lieut. McDermott had been washed overboard. His exhausted companions were hospitalized...