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...successive 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...
Detroit, long a mediocre baseball city, has this summer showed more excitement about its team than ever before. Detroit newssheets send four or more reporters to cover each game. Fortnight ago, when a game was postponed, a Detroit daily published a four-column picture of Pitcher Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe, staring disconsolately out of a window at the rain. Said the Tigers' Manager Mickey Cochrane last week: "It doesn't make much difference whether we play the Cardinals, Giants or Cubs. . . . Our players are the same, but they have improved since last year...
...world's tiniest sewing machine cost Collector Charbneau ten times the price of a regular full-sized one. It was made by Schoolboy Henry Nelson and Jeweler Ted Brown of Los Angeles...
Known to every U. S. schoolboy are two historic U. S. paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze and The Spirit of '76 by Archibald M. Willard. Some may be aware that the first hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art but few indeed know that the original of The Spirit of '76 is the particular pride of Marblehead, Mass, where it adorns that smug Boston suburb's ancient Abbott Hall...
Latest addition to the group of star Negro athletes, Eulace Peacock, like Owens, gave some indication of his abilities as a schoolboy when he won the National pentathlon in 1933. This spring Peacock did little except win the 100-metre dash and broad jump against comparatively mediocre competition at the Penn Relays. Last week was the first time he had jumped 26 ft. Son of a Union, N. J. tar tester, a competent but not brilliant student, Peacock runs without Metcalfe's finishing drive or Owens' smoothness, but with higher knee action than either. After his demonstration last week...