Word: strikeouts
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After Ingalls had retired three men in succession by the strikeout route in the first half of the third, the Mitchellmen took up their cudgels to score the first tally of the day. Al Colwell drew a pass, reaching second on Ingall's sacrifice hit, and timely singles by Lupe Lupien and Captain Tom Bilodueau sent the big catcher across the plate...
...addition to being the game's youngest pitcher he is also, to all appearances, its best. Strikeouts are to a baseball pitcher what home runs are to a batter- the most spectacular possible evidence of skill. In his first regular major-league game last year Feller struck out 15 batters, one less than the American League record, set by Rube Waddell 28 years before. Modern major-league strikeout record is 17, made by Dizzy Dean in 1933. In his third week of major-league play, against the Philadelphia Athletics, Feller broke the American League record, equaled Dean...
...quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees. Off the diamond, he wears dark clothes, walks with a slouch, speaks in monosyllables...
...stores and filling stations, bringing the city under martial law and causing a few brushes between guardsmen and strikers. But as an effective effort to achieve Labor's ends it had proved, like San Francisco's general strike last year and Seattle's in 1919, a strikeout. Still" on hand when it was over were the 58 armed company guards whose injection into a strike at a local enamel plant had led to the general walkout...
...represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having as much difficulty finding a proper vehicle for her lush talents as her Congressional father and uncle are having trying to grope their legislative way out of the cotton crisis...