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...Pittsburgh Pirates: 7-to-4; a baseball game against the New York Giants, ending at 15 games the winning streak that climaxed the spurt that carried the Giants from fifth place on July 15 to first in the National League last week; in Pittsburgh...
...Flex tired muscles and keep them tense for several seconds to refresh them. They become fit for another round of fighting or another spurt of running in a much shorter time than if permitted to relax or if stimulated with a hypodermic injection of adrenalin. The reinvigoration is due, theorized Cornell's Drs. S. A. Guttman, R. G. Horton and Davis Truxton Wilber, to either: 1) the release of a potent chemical, acetylcholine, by nerve ends in the tired muscles, or; 2) a sudden excess of calcium in those muscles...
...last inning spurt by the Crimson was cut short as Tom Bilodeau lined into a fast double play which caught John Adzigian off second...
No.1 track thrill for the 18,000 spectators was furnished by Kansan Glenn Cunningham. Apparently rejuvenated, after a disappointing indoor season, Miler Cunningham in a special race cagily let two capable competitors set the pace, unleashed a terrific spurt at the finish to set a new U. S. outdoor record...
...Lead spurt was equally remarkable in that only 800 shares changed hands on Feb. 26 and only 625 on Feb. 27, Lead stockholders preferring to keep their stock rather than take their profit. The shares have long been a widows-&-orphans' favorite, a gilt-edge security that has paid at least its regular $5 common dividend throughout Depression. Only 300,831 shares of common are outstanding and 25 individual holders have blocks of 1,000 shares or more, with these relatively large holdings amounting to about 47,000 shares. Another 58,000 shares are held by individual owners with...