Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been founded on this ideal of Big Three athletic leadership. And lest Princeton be hasty in assuming a holier-than-thou attitude, there has been many a raised eyebrow at the well-publicised added attraction this Saturday which will undoubtedly build up an otherwise modest attendance in Palmer Stadium...
...this year's games for baseball's "world championship" will be played on two fields not much more than a good outfielder's throw apart: the Polo Grounds, home field of young Horace Stoneham's New York Giants, and the Yankee Stadium, home field of old Jacob Ruppert's New York Yankees...
...year's World Series would be sellouts, the one that got most attention last week came from the White House. First Presidential junket to the World Series since Herbert Hoover was roundly booed at Philadelphia in 1931 was scheduled for the third game, the first in the Yankee Stadium...
...National League batters who were accustomed to it could not hit the Hubbell screwball, Yankee batsmen who had never encountered it could scarcely hope to do so. Yankee enthusiasts retaliated with the argument that the Polo Grounds, where the grandstands are nearer to the plate than in the Stadium, would suit home run experts like Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey. Hired to sign stories for Hearst sport pages, Pitcher Hubbell and First Baseman Gehrig met in the syndicate's office in Manhattan. Said First Baseman Gehrig: "This fellow Hubbell . . . isn't much on conversation...
...rebuild the reputation as a superfighter that was destroyed by Max Schmeling last June. Last week, 24 hours before the tenth anniversary of the rainy night that Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey there for the championship of the world, Ettore and Louis crawled into a ring in the Municipal Stadium. The fight, which drew a crowd of 50,000, lasted five lively rounds. In the first, two rights put Ettore down for a short count. In the second and third, Ettore, who had promised to knock Louis into the 15th row, courageously belabored his opponent's ribs, caused...