Pitchers and their famed pitches through baseball history
Associated Press profile surveys lefty legends and their signatures pitches. It covers Hubbell and a parade of famed throwers, detailing screwball, knuckler, spitball, submarine, and other grips and how umpires judge them. The piece notes how specific pitchers like Auker and Leonard used unique grips, and explains how rules shifts have outlawed some famed pitches.
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Dillon Graham
Associated Press Sports
Wester
New York
Carl Hubbell
Goofy Gomez
Hub
Heb
Christy Mathewson
Eddie Cicotte
Carl] Mays
Urban Faber
Bucky Walters
Dutch Leonard
Jim Tobin
Claude Passeau
Walter Johnson
Sknuckler
Tneer
Hubbell
Mays
Elden Auker
Brooklyn
Fred Fitzsimmons
Tot Presnell
Presnell
Felter
Filet Crochet Set For Home Decor And Craft
A crochet pattern offers a versatile filet crochet set with house and tree motif pieces suitable for scarf ends or a buffet set. Describes inexpensive fine cotton materials and includes charts and instructions. Send eleven cents in coins to Hagerstown Daily Mail Household Arts Dept for Pattern 7456 with name and address.
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Hagerstown Daily Mail Household Arts Dept
14Th Street
New York
Connie Mack Predicts Open, Tight AL Race
Philadelphia May 26 Connie Mack forecasts a wide open American League title chase with close games upsets and late drives. He says any club can win, cites Washington as strongest right now, and notes the Athletics finally have a pennant chance after years in the doldrums.
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Philadelphia
Connie Mack
Chicago
Washington
Athletics
Dean Sees Bright Season For Team After Weeks Of Play
The 80 year old dean praised his squad after six weeks of play. He highlighted Russ Christopher returning as a strong pitcher, Jesse Flores as a great pitcher, and solid infield defense. Irving Hall emerged as a fine shortstop and Jo Jo White tops in center field with Ernie Mayo showing promise at third. He predicted a great season with improved hitting and morale.
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Dean
Russ Christopher
Jesse Flores
Irving Hall
Jo-Jo White
Ernie Mayo
Sald Connie
Radio Program Changes Across Networks and Times
New York radio listings on May 26 outline vacation replacements and new series. Dr Harry Hagens True or Fame of the BLU is replaced by Nero Wolfe with Santos Ortega. John Nesbitt takes over Fibber McGee and Molly on NBC starting June 29. Harlow Wilcox tours sans vacation. Abie's Irish Rose and Burns and Arlen suspend for summer. Herb Shriner leaves Comedy Caravan for Army. America’s Town Meeting marks nine years to discuss reciprocity act. A wartime working women series debuts on BLU at 7 30 with Geraldine Kay as MLC The New Eve. Programs on KBC 8 include Mr and Mrs North 8 30 Tom Dorsey Eddie Cantor Mary closing blocks. BLU listings feature Your War Job Lone Ranger Manhattan at Midnight John Freedom drama District Attorney and more.
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Harry Hagen
Santos Ortega
John Nesbitt
NBC
Harlow Wilcox
Nesbitt
John Charles Thomas
Abie
Burns
Arlen
CBS
Herb Shriner
America
Geraldine Kay
Chicago
Mlc
KBC
Mrs. North
Tommy Dorsey
Eddie Cantor
Mary Box
Jay Kyser
Red Barber
Sammy Kaye
Milt Berle
Manhattan
John Freedom
Radio Forum
J. C. O'Mahoney
Thousands flock to New York seeking Broadway lead fame
AP Features notes that thousands of stage hopefuls pour into New York each year hoping to master a technique that could place them in lights on Broadway. Few succeed, as the path to stardom remains ill defined and elusive.
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New York
Broadway
Strike Ends at North Mountain Plant in West Virginia
Ralph Kuhn of United Mine Workers District 50 announced negotiations reached a work agreement with United Clay Products Company in North Mountain ending a two week strike by 60 workers. The five cent hourly wage increase awaits approval from the Regional War Labor Board.
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Martingburg
Ralph Kuhn
United Mine Workers District 50
Chemical Division
United Clay Products Company
North Mountain
Rubber workers in Brazil exempted from draft
In Rio de Janeiro on May 26 government move exempted all Brazilian rubber workers from army mobilization for the present to boost natural rubber output. The order signed yesterday by War Minister General Eurice details the deferred classification in a bid to strengthen wartime production.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Eurice
Flageolet Wind Instrument and Rubber Trade Note
A brief passage discusses Stanley Gasper Dutra's design to address a labor shortage and help Brazil reach a 1943 goal of 40,000 tons of crude rubber in the Amazon valley, noted as the UN's greatest single source outside distant Ceylon and Liberia. It also mentions the flageolet being a wind instrument in the flute family usually carved from ivory.
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Gasper Dutra
Brazil
Amazon Valley
United Nations
Ceylon
Liberia
Ivory
Beau Jack Montgomer y Bout Tops Promoter's 35th MSG Championship Fight
Local quotations list farm prices paid for wheat corn butter onions and other goods with mixed figures and opacities. The Beau Jack Bob Montgomery bout was the 35th championship fight Mike Jacobs promoted in Madison Square Garden.
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Kline Bros
Emenes
Beau Jack
Bob Montgomery
Mike Jacobs
Madison Square Garden
Horoscope Gemini traits and weathering future pressures
The Gemini profile notes high intelligence and generosity with a tendency to scatter efforts. May 26 warns of treachery from Japan and stock food shortages as war needs rise, while business may face inflation and uncertain government spending. Children born under Gemini are likely bright and physically strong.
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Gemini
Mercury
Pacific
Joe McCarthy at 55 and potato as exotic dish tease
The note mentions Yankee manager Joe McCarthy at age 55 and ponders whether the potato may become as rare a delicacy as pate de foie gras, reflecting a playful culinary aside in sports coverage.
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Joe McCarthy
Yankee
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