Rookie Stars Pace Majors In 1938 Race
A survey of the 1938 season highlights a surge of rookie stars across the majors. Johnny Vander Meer, Joe Gordon, Ken Keltner, Sammy Chapman, Enos Slaughter, Hank Greenberg, Bob Kingler, Jim Bagby Jr., Tot Presnell and others have earned regular spots, driving team success with strong averages and noteworthy pitching, catching and fielding feats.
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Joe Flash
Gordon
New York Yankees
Cleveland Indians
Ken Keltner
Sammy Chapman
Philadelphia Athletics
University of California
Enos
Slaughter
S T. Louis Cardinals
Hank Steinbachber
Chicago White Sox
Jim
Jim Bagby
Tot Presnell
Brooklyn Dodgers
Cincinnati
Willard Hershberger
Newark
Sloths Could Dominate Baseball If Slugging Continues
Baseball historian Bill Lange, a 19th century star who once stole 100 bases for the Chicago Cubs, argues the sport favors home runs over speed. He credits base stealing as sharpening a player's mind and recalls Ty Cobb as a premier example. Lange notes his own peak came in 1896 and 1897, while records by Ward, Hamilton, and an MLB mark by 1891 are cited.
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Bill Lange
Chicago Cubs
Lange
Ty Cobb
Baba
Wonder Woman ELEN WILLS MOODYS Wimbledon Victory
Elen Wills Moody wins at Wimbledon confirming her as the greatest woman player in tennis history. After a three year layoff she repeats a comeback feat last seen in 1935 and solidifies a 16 year dominance with multiple U S and Wimbledon titles plus French championships and doubles wins.
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Elen Wills Moody
Helen Jacoba
Wimbledon
England
Helen
United States
Bes
Mrs. Moody
Mixed memories of baseball, football, and a Zaroff tale
The clippings cover Iowa baseball scaling a state tourney at Manson, a hypothetical movable goal post to reduce injuries, Southern California players in summer films, and a long excerpt from The Most Dangerous Game detailing Rainsford’s trap and Zaroff’s hunt. The blend shows sports notes and vintage fiction in a single page.
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Wen Bob Feller
van Meter
Iowa
Manson
Calhoun County
Letty Grove
Belg
Frank Schulte
West Side Cubs
Babe Butch
Lou Gehrig
Jack Beynon
Southern California
Granville Lansdell
Oliver Day
Phil Dubaski
Bob Peoples
Jack Banta
Roy Engle
Howard Bwecker
Beans Russell
Glen Galvin
Pittsburgh
Hughie Gritz
Giants
New York
Western Newspeker
Men of the Mounted in the Klondyke Stampede
The article recalls how a few Northwest Mounted Police on the sixtieth parallel maintained order during the Klondike rush, preventing mob violence in Skagway as thousands of stampeders headed to the Yukon. It notes clashes, riots, and the eventual conversion of many lawbreakers into orderly migrants underMounted oversight.
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Klondyke
Carmack
Yukon
Skagway
Yukon Goldfields
Lake Bennet
Lewes
Alaska
Canada
Northwest Mounted Police
Redcoats
Mounted
Yukon Territory
The Most Dangerous Game Opening on Caribbean Yacht
A yacht glides through Caribbean waters as Whitney and Rainsford discuss a hunting trip to South America. After a late-night remark about hunting, Rainsford falls overboard, drifts miles at sea, and washes ashore on a mysterious island exhausted from the swim. He then sleeps, unaware of the peril awaiting.
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Bey
Teash
Rainsford
Ivan
Zaroff
Ichard Connell
Caribbean
South America
Whitney
Caribbean Sea
Richard Connell A Versatile Twentieth Century Writer
Richard Connell, born 1893, Harvard graduate, served in France with the AEF during World War I. He wrote newspaper work, edited, and authored cinema stories. Notable tales include Apes and Angels, Murder at Sea, and The Most Dangerous Game, which was later adapted for the screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Connell
Mr. Connell
Harvard
France
How to Sew Half and Full Patchwork Quilt by Ruth Wyeth Spears
In upstate New York a half century ago a grandmother hides a cash prize inside her silken crazy patch quilt. This piece describes the quilt’s artistry, the family’s view at the fair, and offers detailed instructions for dozens of stitches for crazy patchwork with order details for related sewing books and leaflets.
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New York
Spears
Desplaines St
Chicago
Loveliness in Crochet Cloth Pattern 6084
Advertisement for a crochet cloth pattern 6084 showing a 58 inch cloth and three smaller sizes, with instructions, illustrations, and materials. Priced at 15 cents. requests should be mailed to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept New York with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Dept
We Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Modesty, Identity, and Artistic Temperament Reflections
A quip about preferring anonymity, fingerprint resistance, and the stubborn pride of civilized man in white bedsheets. The piece argues quotation weight over logic, then links artistic temperament to fury when thwarted, noting the persistence of decorum despite facts.
Quick and the Dead and the Lightest Substances Facts
Quick derives from cwic living. Hydrogen is the lightest element. Free verse uses rhythm without strict rhyme or meter. A congressman represents about 280674 people. Eurydice debuted in Florence in 1600. Radio waves travel at light speed about 186660 miles per second. Public 418 restricts photos of military installations. Ezra Meeker journeyed Oregon Trail by wagon then car and air. There are 20 cables in the North Atlantic, 7 in the South Atlantic and 3 in the Pacific.
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Congress
Florence
Ezra Meeker
Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Ohio
Oregon Trail
Federal Communications Commission
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Pacific
Help ful Hints on Planning a Laxative Diet
Readers are invited to write to C. Houston Goudiss at 6 East 39th Street New York City for a free bulletin titled Help ful Hints on Planning a Laxa tive Diet. The bulletin offers concrete suggestions for combatting faulty elimination through correct eating and hygiene. It lists laxative foods and provides a full week's sample menus. A post card suffices to request it.
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C. Houston Goudiss
East 39Th Street
New York City
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