This Is Year of Pitcher and Baseball News
President Heydler notes pitchers gain break and hitters struggle as 1981 games show lower, closer scores. San Francisco Seals and Missions offer free admission for women at night games with male escorts and added sales. Rhode Island State tracks names four captains led by Murgo Cieutzo Osterlund and Howes. Manhattan College Jaspers change coaches with Bert Daniels replacing Loughran after a string of managers.
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John Heydler
Mr. Heyner
Heyd Jers
San Francisco
Seals and
Misions
Rhode Island State
Fred Tootell
Joe Murgo
Papi Cieutzo
Eric Osterlund
Dick Howes
Low Hurner
Murgo
Cieutzo
Howes
Osterlund
Motorists Travel Far on Newly Improved Roads
Motorists in 1930 averaged 8,340 miles yearly up from about 5,000 a decade earlier, aided by improved roads funded largely by vehicle licenses and gasoline taxes. Gas tax income reached 494,683,000 with an average rate of 3.25 cents per gallon, while license fees averaged 13.41 dollars annually. Bond issues funded by gasoline tax revenue finance highway construction without extra motorist burden.
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E. Duffy
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa State College
Fraulein Gina Falienberg wins Germany girl golf title
Fraulein Gina Falienberg has become Germany's girl golf champion and already holds the German women's amateur championships in swimming and hurdling, marking her as a versatile young athlete with a rising Triple Crown potential.
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Fraulein
Gina Falienberg
Germany
Baseball's 1919 scandal and Ruth era reshaped fans
Retired umpire reflects on six world series including 1912 Giants vs Red Sox and 1919 Black Eye scandal. He notes bribery by gamblers, public skepticism, and Babe Ruth helping restore faith. Also recalls Cleveland Sunday game riot at Niles and a famed riot amid circle of postwar baseball.
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New York Giants
Boston Red Sox
Snodgrass
New York
Giants
Phil
Chicago
White Sox
Babe Ruth
Ruth
Cleveland
Niles
Ohio
Bell Syndicate
University of Florida hosts water basketball
Water basketball was played at the University of Florida this year while the University of Minnesota plans a $300,000 ice rink and a $40,000 golf course. A small town wonders how a pitcher will be chosen for the next game as young Mr Owen the Tigers seem to have found a shortstep.
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University of Florida
The
University of Minois
Mr. Owen
Fruit Jar Holds Flashlight and Odd baseball notes
A quirky note suggests using a common fruit jar to hold a flashlight while working under a car. The piece also references John Gruber as Forbes Field’s official scorer, mentions Bobby Mathews as the first spitball pitcher, and lists varied baseball notes including league standings, fielding records, and training plans for the Brooklyn club in Havana.
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Bobby Mathews
Boston Nationals
Saw-Toothed Grasses Fatal to Wild Animals
The Biological Survey reports that needlelike seed tips of squirreltail and related grasses on western ranges pierce the mouths of elk, deer, and moose. The jagged seed edge fells embedded, causing infections, abscesses, and sometimes death. Authorities seek to eradicate these grasses from the Wyoming elk refuge and North Dakota Sullys Hill game preserve where harm has appeared.
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Department of Agriculture
Elk Refuge
Wyoming
Sullys Hill Game Preserve
North Dakota
Son’s Idea Not What His Father Meant in Hollywood
Frederick Lonsdale notes girls are less shy now at a Hollywood charity bazaar. An elderly man bet his son could kiss a seller, then the boy made a girl scream. The father quips he kept his dollar after witnessing the stunt and the crowd’s reaction.
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Frederick Lonsdale
Hollywood
Detroit
Free Press
Zipped Way Around World Inventor Sundback’s Fastener
The zipper, invented in 1914 by Gideon Sundback, Swedish engineer in the United States, began as a safety device for packets and spread globally. It is manufactured worldwide including the United States, Canada, Austria, France, and Germany. Earlier patents failed until Sundback perfected the design, now yielding substantial rewards for him.
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Gideon Sundback
United States
Canada
Austria
France
Germany
Sundback
Youthful Idea of Art Nothing to Boast About
Walter Bateson urged art education in public schools recounting an incident at the Rodin museum. A group of youths misinterpreted sculptures while one boy paused long enough to remark that the Moses-led story behind the sculpture shows hardship. The piece closes with a reflective line on shared sorrow.
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Walter Bateson
Rodin Museum
Calais
Volga
Coxey
Moses
Persia
Fellows' Syrup tonic beat age and fatigue in ads
Old too soon pity the poor men and women who feel tired and sluggish and grow old too soon. Fellows' Syrup replenishes the system with vital elements demanded by Nature and aids you to regain youthful energy and vitality after a few doses. Ask your druggist for the genuine Fellows' Syrup prescribed by doctors.
Future Earth Faces Eternal Heat And Cold
Dr W J Spillman foresees a remote era when the earth’s tilt and orbit align so one side always faces the sun and the other remains eternally frigid. The sunward side would boil while the opposite hemisphere stays around 50 degrees below zero for all time, with no water on the hot side.
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Oelon
W. J. Spillman
Department of Agriculture
Jaz in Japan drums up interest in school songs
In Japan rising interest in jazz and school songs grows as educators and thinking citizens worry over waning demand for sumka't war songs and the Shoka. Students organize bands across schools and colleges while many citizens hum popular airs.
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Japan
Carnegie's Boys Build Sydney Harbor Bridge Chronicle
The story covers the Sydney Harbor Bridge project described as the greatest in the world with costs around £6,000,000. Lawrence Ennis, in charge, rose from early coal pits near Edinburgh to emigrant engineer in America and then to Carnegie’s contractor, a dramatic ascent in the engineering field.
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Carnegie
Sydney Harbor
Australia
Lawrence Ennis
Edinburgh
America
Pit-Bey
Not enough data for complete report
Fragmentary quote notes a statistician on New York hotel registrations in 1930 and says the enterprise was reluctantly abandoned. No clear event, date, or names beyond generic reference to Life magazine.
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New York
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Wilter Johnson
Iron Man
Bucky Harris
Johnson
Bucky
Washington
Barney
Tiger
Heydler
St.Louis Cardinals
Manhattan College
Jaspers
Bill McCarthy
Manhattan
Ted Brogan
Brogan
Bill Loughran
Loughran
Pette Noonen
Jasper
Bert Daniels
Yankee
van Ruley
Cleveland Indians
Adelphia
Chicago White Sox
Cincinnati
New York Yankees
V. PF. Beisterman
Popular Mechanics Magazine
John Gruber
Forbesfield
Pittsburgh Pirates
Atlanta
Memphis
New Orleans
Steffy Meclanis
Chub Collins
Ontario
Can) Baseball Amateur Association
Missouri
Jack Johnson
Utah
Ant
Babe
Dave MacMillan
Minnesota
Idaho
Brooklyn
Havana
Florida
VNU Service
Fellows Syrup
Parker
STON
Dion
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
N.Y
Harold Somers
N.Y. Salem
Central
Europe
Kelly-Kelly
Wrightwood
Wabash
Magen City
Geo. R
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Maiden
Mass
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