Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cripple Porgy, this time with music for himself and the 75 other blacks living in Catfish Row, returned last week to Manhattan. He was still the brainchild of Playwright DuBose Heyward, still the protege of Manhattan's Theatre Guild which took him under its wing eight years ago. For one week Porgy and Bess, with a 700-page score by Composer George Gershwin (TIME, Sept. 30), played in Boston, won high praise. On opening night in Manhattan half the Somebodies in town crowded in to hear this latest attempt at a U. S. folk opera...
...expert pitching of Alvin Crowder. a seasoned, crafty right-hander who had pitched in two World Series before but never won a game, the Tigers took the fourth game, 2-to-1, on Chicago errors, gamblers made them a 6-to-1 favorite. Needing three games in a row to win, the Cubs took the fifth, like the first a pitching duel between Warneke and Detroit's famed Arkansan, Schoolboy Rowe, 3-to-1, mainly on the strength of a homerun by their Right Fielder Chuck Klein, and the teams moved back to Detroit to end their business...
First lay out the CRIMSON with page one showing, on the back of the person sitting in the row ahead. Fold it lengthwise along the middle, open it up again, and then fold the two top corners into the middle. You now have a 45-degree angle--another such fold will make a 22 1/2 degree angle, and a third an angle of 11 1/4 degrees. (Professor Coolidege told...
...shutouts. The team's fielding average is .979 compared to .974 last year. Its batting average is 289, exactly the same as the Cubs . Both the Tigers and the Cubs have topnotch infields. The Tigers have a super-star Hank Greenberg, on first base. Their pitching ace, Schoolboy Rowe a lanky Arkansan like Lon Warneke last year won 16 games in a row. Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore, in Mickey Cochrane the Tigers possess not only the best catcher in either league...
...Dover, in the Eastern Shore League, bought him and got rich by selling him to Portland, Ore. for $15,000. From Portland, Cochrane went to the Athletics. Experts generally considered him the spark plug of the team with which Connie Mack won the pennant three times in a row...