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Outhitting and outshining its schoolboy opponents in the field, the Freshman baseball team rode to its fifth victory of the season in trouncing Lawrence Academy 15-3 at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon in an eight inning game, called because of darkness...
...World Champion New York Yankees. For two straight years both New York nines have wound up facing each other in the World Series. For the good of baseball everyone is hoping that the 1938 season may see a change. In the American League the return of the fabulous "Schoolboy" Rowe may put Detroit on top, or Cleveland's lightning thrower Bob Feller may have enough to give his team the verdict. With the news that the one and only Dizzy Dean has been traded to the already powerful Chicago Cubs, it looks as if the New York Giants were through...
Last week in Chicago there came to public attention a more baffling case of inversion than any previously discovered - a schoolboy who writes with his left hand, not only backwards but also upside down. When he was in the first grade in Chicago's Fulton Elementary School, Frank Balek, now eleven, the son of a left-handed mother, puzzled his teachers because he could not learn to read or write. In the second grade he pushed his paper sideways, began to make some progress. By the third grade he had shoved the paper all the way around...
...competing in around 40 bouts in his pro career. As a prize-fighter, he lost only one fight, and that was to Jim Maloney, of South Boston. He admits with some hesitation that instead of being called "Kid Lamar" or the "Southern Slugger," he was billed as "The Washington Schoolboy...
With a series of victories over schoolboy sextets including Andover, Exeter, Milton, and Belmont Hill behind them, the Yardling skaters are running into tougher opponents as they take on Dartmouth on Friday, and Yale on Saturday, February...