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...will prove to be the No.1 rookie of the year-Giant Johnny Rucker, Yankee Marvin Breuer, Red Mike McCormick or Dodger Peewee Reese...
...game for the Cardinals, he was sent to Houston for a year of seasoning, rejoined the team in 1932. For the last three years he has led the National League in strikeouts. In 1933, he broke a record held jointly by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker by striking out 17 batters in one game. His 30 victories last season made him the National League's first 30-game winner since...
...Frisch, who last week replaced Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, 8 to 2; in which Pitcher Jerome ("Dizzy") Dean struck out 17 Chicago batters, one more than the modern record which was jointly held by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker; and in which his catcher, Jimmy Wilson, was enabled to make a record also, with 18 putouts; at St. Louis. Manager Frisch's oldtime rival, Rogers Hornsby, this year his understudy on the Cardinals, last week left the team to become manager of the St. Louis Browns, tail-enders...
Best cinematography?Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker (With Byrd at the South Pole...
With Byrd at the South Pole (Paramount). No matter what the scientific value of the Byrd expedition, there is no doubting the fact that Byrd's two photographers, Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved...