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Forty-five years ago in a back room of the Commercial Hotel of Cornwall, N. Y., seven-year-old William Frederick Hoppe stood on a soap box, lifted his arms high to get them over the edge of the table, and with a sidearm stroke sent the Zanzibar ivory balls rolling smoothly over the green baize. Eleven years later Hoppe, using the same queer sidearm stroke, defeated the long-haired, elegant French champion, Maurice Vignaux, in the bespangled ballroom of Paris' Grand Hotel to become at 18 the world's champion 18.1 balkline billiardist...
Second pair of pitchers whom Mitchell will be watching are Harold M. Curtiss '39 and Donald Prouty '39. The former, with a battling sidearm delivery, and the latter a relief hurler, formed a nine inning combination on last year's undefeated Freshman team...
...minor leagues, he went on throwing screwballs. In 1928, he was throwing the screwball for the Giants. In the All-Star game of 1934, he used it to strike out Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin, the five best batters in the American League, in succession. Mixed with a sidearm curve and a fast ball, it is still his specialty. The Hubbell screwball, according to batters who have missed it, not only dips sharply but also slows down as it arrives at the plate...
Both of the others are government officials. Gustave Van Belle, Commissioner of Roads & Bridges in Flanders, is a slim, diffident man with thin legs and a reddish face. He has been world champion three times, won many an international tournament with his artful sidearm stroke. Long-nosed Albert Poensgen, a onetime jurist and now a well-paid employe in Berlin's Ministry of Finance, is considered by his confreres to be the luckiest player in the world as well as one of the best. At 51 he has been playing in international tournaments for 21 years, won the world...
Third Game. It was a hot, sunny day. Manager Street knew that the bleachers in St. Louis would be patched with white shirts, making it hard for the Athletics to hit a sidearm pitcher. Doubtless he would have started Wild Bill Hallahan even if the weather had been different for when Hallahan is good, he is superb, now that catcher's signals simple enough for him to understand have been worked out. At first, in spite of the blind spots made by those white shirts, it did not look like Hallahan's day. Bishop led off with...