Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...either to be original at the risk of irreverence or heresy, or traditional without originality. On the whole he sticks close to the traditional. Exceptions: showing Christ as a young man wistfully watching the youths and maidens walking out together through the fields; making Judas an evident fiend, a bat-eared Apollyon. Best cut: Lazarus...
From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the mighty yellow River, "China's Sorrow," and attempt to control its perennial floods...
...Francis ("Shanty") Hogan, huge, able catcher of the New York Giants baseball team, at an apartment party in Manhattan, objected to the presence of one Joseph Kink, Negro elevator operator who had been asked in for a drink. Hogan ejected Kink. Furious, Kink got a base ball bat and knife, waited until Hogan left the party, took him down in the elevator, beat and stabbed him painfully as he left the building...
Second Game. The Cardinals again made two bad mistakes. The day before they had systematically annoyed the Athletics' Mickey Cochrane, "greatest catcher in baseball." When he came to bat the St. Louis henchmen had flapped their hands beside their heads, chanting softly "Mule ears. Mule ears." Annoyed, Cochrane had knocked a homer. Now in the first inning they goaded him again. He made another homer...
...Batting. The reason that Mack did not rely so much on his left-handers against the Cubs last year was that he thought it a bad idea to use "lefties" against a team of good right-hand hitters. The Cardinals hit just as well right-handed as the Cubs. Douthit, Hafey, Wilson, Gelbert, Adams are all right-side batters; Frisch can bat on either side. This year (up to last week) the Cardinal outfield averaged .353 at bat, the Athletics outfield .311. Every man in the regular Cardinal line-up except Bottomley has hit over .300. The six best Athletics...