Be ess demands: Bees greybeard rookies face second year jinx
Boston Bees veterans Turner and Fette, age thirty one, defied rookie myths after 1937 success. They led staff in ERA and complete games, each five shutouts, while scouted as stale minor leaguers earlier. Winter training kept them sharp, optimistic about beating the jinx.
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Jim Turner
Lou Fette
Boston Bees
Graybeard
Boston
Fireball van Single Mungo
Bees
Turner
Fette
Molensville
Tenn
Alma
Bil McKechnie
The
Cincinnatii Reds
American Association
Indianapolis
St. Paul
Ball Park
McKechniec
Jim
Lou
Mixed sports notes and historical records from the era
A digest of varied sports and event notes mentions AVING BUMP HADLEY aiming to be AL photographer, Syracuse adding bowling as a varsity sport with 50 000 games bowled by undergraduates, Bill Monahan guiding concessions for the 1939 Golden Gate exposition, Schmeling’s 192 percent weight as his lightest since the Louis knock, Madison Square Garden collecting about 2.5 million in hockey rents since 1925, John Kester bowling 101 games in 15 hours 47 minutes with 40 minutes rest, Baptie breaking a long speed skating bet time, the first baseball broadcast in 1921 by W O McGeehan, and DiMaggio’s three hits off Mel Harder last season.
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Aving Bump Hadley
White Sox
Yankees
Syracuse University
Bill Monahan
University of California
California
Max Schmeling
Ben Foord
Hamburg
Joe Louis
Yankee Stadium
Madison Square Garden Corporation
Rangers
New York
John Kester
Portage
Wis
Norval Baptie
W. O. McGeehan
Joe DiMaggio
Mel Harder
Cleveland
Crisler Returns to Michigan as Coach and ADO
The Big Ten figure Fritz Crisler returns to the University of Michigan as football coach and assistant director of athletics after prior success at Chicago and Minnesota. The piece notes his Princeton tenure, Big Ten history, and expectation of succeeding aging coach Fielding H. Yost. It also mentions Bobby Jones Jr establishing the American Golf Institute and entering the Masters at Augusta in April.
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Herbert
Fritz
Crisler
University of Michigan
Harry Kipke
University of Chicago
Chicago
A. A. Stagg
Minesota
Princeton
Michigan
Fielding H. Yost
Big Ten
United States
Robert T
Bobby’ Jones, Jr
American Golf Institute
Bobby
Professional Golfers’ Association
Augusta
Western Newspaper Union
America
It's a Strike Bowling Enthusiasm Sweeps Nation
Bowling gains nationwide craze with 250000 participants in two ABC led tournaments. The Red Crown sweepstakes offers 34000 dollars in prizes and five thousand teams enter the ABC tourney in Chicago. Bowling evolves from saloon pastime to popular sport with wide participation across 1500 towns and a world record crowd.
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American Bowling Congress
ABC
Chicago
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Tunney
Infinite variety of sights in the national capital
Washington offers visitors a rich array of government offices, museums, parks, and wildlife. Archives, embassies, and the Library of Congress provide authoritative data, while Rock Creek Park and the National Zoo showcase nature and vast bird and animal life.
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National Geographic Society
Shington
D. C
WNU
Hawever
Washington
Andrew Mellon
Department of Agriculture
United States
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George A. Barclay
Fritz Crisler
Institute of Golf
Bobbie Jones
Joseph W. Labine
Brooklyn
Main Street
Primo Carera
Karl Keyerleber
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Harvey Braatz
Joan Radtkin
Braatz
Kewler
Francis Drake
England
Manhattan Island
New England
Walt
Gods of
Mrs
Alice Faye
Hollywood
Alice
Mont Lindsey
New Haven
Night View
District of Columbia
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Rock Creek Park
National Zoological Park
William M. Mann
Sumatra
National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution
East Indies
Galapagos
Fort Myer
Army
Navy
Marine Band
Botanic Garden
National Botanic Garden
Congressional Library
Capitol
Tropics
Panama
Union Station
Congressional
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