Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...league pitchers as well as he did last year when he hit .366 and cracked out 43 home runs for the Minneapolis Millers, Boston fans will have something to wave about. Third Baseman Jim Tabor has already proved that he can cope with major-leaguers: in a tryout with the Red Sox at the tail-end of last season he batted .316 in 19 games. Not the least perturbed last week Rookie Williams drawled: "There is only one man on the Boston club who can hit them further than me. That's Jimmy Foxx...
...Edward Bowes, unctuous dominie of Chrysler's Original Amateur Hour each Thursday night at 9 over CBS. The Original Amateur Hour, as virtually every U. S. radio listener knows, is Opportunity Night on a national scale. Four years ago last week Major Bowes put it there, after a tryout year at Manhattan's WHN. Now the Major draws down a fee which the radio business covertly estimates at $20,000 a week for producing the radio program, collects between $10,000 and $15,000 weekly on the side from U. S. theatres for appearances of road-company units...
Austie Harding is included on the list of prospective candidates for the 1940 Olympic hockey squad, the United States Hockey Committee announced, More names will be added to the 50 odd already selected, and the Crimson captain will be given a final tryout next January in New York City...
...engaged Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Burleigh Grimes, Gabby Street), lures some 300 pupils every spring thereby. In six years 500 Doan graduates have found jobs in organized baseball-mostly in Class D leagues where they might have landed the same job by going directly to the club for a tryout...
...Harvard Dramatic Society had some very fine days eight or nine years ago; I haven't heard of it at all lately," said Thornton Wilder, during a recess from the rehearsal and revision of his newest play, "A Merchant of Yonkers," which is finishing a tryout run in Boston this week...