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Four rounds later the rapier began to sting. Young Billy began to maul the Big Boy. He beat him to the punch, socked him as though he had a policeman's billy in his mitt...
...Ford in celebration of his birthday took a ride for photographers on the light (12 Ib.) English bicycle on which he likes to take a three-mile spin every evening after supper; Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicudy), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, donned mask, chest protector and catcher's mitt to demonstrate the technique which got him a job as catcher with the Washington Senators...
...last of the ninth. Old Tex Carleton was still pitching. The Dodgers were still ahead, 3-to-0. Cincinnati's Werber was at bat. A strike, then a grounder, right into Cookie Lavagetto's mitt. Frey came up. A strike, two balls, another strike, another ball. It seemed eternity before the announcer spoke: a fly, high into right field-Cullenbine took it just in front of the bleachers. Then came Goodman, a dangerous batter in a tight spot. The first was high and inside. Then the announcer's voice rose to a deafening crescendo. "Folks...
Crack! Thrown by the Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...
...important cinema vehicle for Baritone Nelson Eddy, whose concert audiences have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced in 1931. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer experimented with Babes in Toyland (1934), kept only three of the original Herbert tunes, rearranged...