Word: stirnweiss
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...Stirnweiss, N. Y. .309 Cavarretta, Chicago .355 Cuccinello, Chicago .308 Holmes, Boston .352 Dickshot, Chicago .303 Rosen, Brooklyn .325 Estalella, Phila. .297 Kurowski, St. Louis .323 Moses, Chicago .295 Hack, Chicago...
...deliver the first time up. From Newark he called up strong-arm rookie pitchers Mel Queen and Floyd Bevens-and already had a 6-1 record for the two to back his judgment. And the apple of McCarthy's managerial eye, speedy Second Baseman George Stirnweiss, was going strong as ever: he had stolen 49 bases in 55 attempts and was leading the League in number of hits...
...third all-star game, at Buffalo, was the first ever played in the minor International League. Contestants were its "northern" (Montreal, Toronto, Rochester, Buffalo) and "southern" (Newark, Jersey City, Syracuse, Baltimore) teams. There, too, the game was clinched in the first inning. Led by Newark's George Stirnweiss and Baltimore's Hank Edwards, the southerners pounded four northern pitchers for eleven hits...
Patrolman Fred Stirnweiss walked to the front of his Bronx home one day last week, popped his head in an open window, and called to his wife Rose...
...Officer Stirnweiss was the 95th New York City patrolman to kill himself in the last six years. In the New York City police force of 18,178, the suicide rate is five times higher than the rate in the general population. To find out why, Manhattan's State-chartered "Committee for the Study of Suicide, Inc.," headed by Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, in the past six months has interviewed every available friend and relative of the dead policemen. The committee has so far offered no explanation for the suicides, asserts that police in other large U. S. cities also have...