Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the twelve weeks he was pitching for the Durham Bulls (a Red farm)-for an average of 12.33 Per nine-inning game-and was voted the No. 1 minor leaguer of the year. They were not concerned by the fact that he had won six games in a row this season (in which he allowed only three runs), and was leading the league in strikeouts with 65. What riled Brooklynites was the fact that Johnny Vander Meer had once been in the Dodgers training camp but they had let him go to Scranton. It was Larry MacPhail...
...Golfer Ralph Guldahl, winner of the U. S. Open fortnight ago: the Western Open championship, second ranking open tournament in the country; for the third year in a row; with a score of 279, including a six-under-par 65 on the last round; at the Westwood Country Club, St. Louis. Runner-up was Sam Snead with 286. Champion Guldahl is the first golfer in the 38-year history of the event to win the title three times in succession...
...picked team of U. S. women tennists: the Wightman Cup, for the eighth year in a row; defeating a picked team of Britons, five matches to two; before a crowd of 12,000; at Wimbledon. In the singles, Helen Wills Moody won both her matches, but Alice Marble, U. S. No. 1, lost one match to Britain's No. 4, Kay Stammers...
...Stolid, stoop-shouldered, 26-year-old Ralph Guldahl: the U. S. Open golf championship; defeating 164 of the country's top-notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke...
...dictatorial and standpat. Elisha progressive and pushing; they got along like cat and dog. In 1925. Frank Dan, just defeated by Jimmy Walker for the job of mayor of New York, went back hurt and angry to the job Elisha was all set to take over. Their row on policy was terrific; they never spoke to each other again...