Are Star Players the Best Pilots in Big Leagues
An analysis of whether star ball players make the best managers. The piece cites Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Mickey Cochrane Frank Frisch Bill Terry Pie Traynor Joe McCarthy Jim Dykes Burleigh Grimes Casey Stengel Gabby Street Charley Grimm Oscar Vitt and others to weigh playing greatness against managerial success. It notes several legends were strong managers without stellar playing careers and vice versa.
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Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth
Cobb
Detroit Tigers
Hughie Jennings
Mickey Cochrane
Tigers
Frank Frisch
St. Louis Cards
Bill Terry
Giants
Pie’ Traynor
Pittsburgh Pirates
Joe McCarthy
New York Yankees
Bill McKechnie
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Boston
Blaze
Jimmy Wilson
Phillies
Casey Stengel
Boston Bees
Gabby Street
St. Louis Browns
Waleer Johnson
Charley Grimm
Cubs
Shere
Oscar Vitt
Newcr
Cleveland Indians
Poker Face in Comeback Trails for Helen Wills Moody
Helen Wills Moody begins a tennis comeback after divorce, aiming for Wimbledon and Forest Hills then Olympic glory. Rumors say she nearly turned pro with Perry, Allison, and Til den, but plans to regain amateur primacy first. Tough hurdles include arch rivals Helen Jacobs and Helen Marble, plus Polish juggernaut Jawiga Jedrejowska.
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Ittle
Helen Wills Moody
Wimbledon
Forest Hills
West Coast
Helen
Fred Perry
Wilmer Allison
Bill Tilden
Helen Jacobs
Helen Marble
Jawiga Jedrejowska
Coaches under pressure from alumni and trustees face firings
Wooster college official L C Boles criticizes alumni and curbstone coaches for pressuring authorities to dismiss instructors who fail to win. He cites post 1937 season sackings, naming Harman, Kipke, Callison, Mehre, Walker, McCallister, Sasse, Sullivan and Propst as examples of heads rolled after a win‑at‑all‑costs culture.
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L. C. Boles
Wooster
Ohio) College
College Physical Directors Society
New Orleans
Curbstone
Boles
Harvey Harman
Pennsylvania
Barry Kipke
Michigan
Prince Callison
Oregon
Harry Mehre
Georgia
Ed. Walker
Mississippi
Don McCallister
South Carolina
Ralph Sasse
Mississippi State
Tom Sullivan
T. Lawrence
Clyde Propst
Southwestern
Tennessee
Dodgers face uncertainty as 1938 season looms
Brooklyn baseball finances and front office turmoil cloud prospects for 1938. General Manager vacancy lingers after Gorman exit as spring schedule is set by rivals, while Ted McGrew reshapes Dodgers talent search. Two Chicago owned horses lead American sire list with 54 winners in 1937.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
Dodgers
Yankees
Brooklyn
John Gorman
London
Ted McGrew
McGrew
John D. Hertz
Wise Counsellor
Fred A. Burton
Western Newspaper Union
Spectacle Driven Film Makers Tout High Honors
The piece notes Twentieth Century Fox leads in spectacular destruction with In Old Chicago featuring a sixty acre blaze and exploding gas mains. It also covers Carole Lombard in True Confession, radio program renewals, Jean Muir’s Hollywood exit to stage work, and behind the scenes fun from Benny Goodman’s band and Marek Weber’s Contented Hour.
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Twentieth Century-Fox
Chicago
Why stars appear pointed and other trivia questions
The text answers six questions about optics geography and history. It says stars’ points come from atmospheric scintillation, the White House name became official under Theodore Roosevelt, Earth's curvature is about 8 inches per mile, the highest U.S. postage denom is five dollars, a capillarity and surface tension note, and the Greek Marathon race length is about 24 miles linked to the Battle of Marathon.
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White House
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Marathon
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Western Mineral Survey
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Salt Lake 4Th Sp
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Cauldwell Laboratory
Cantile
Texas
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