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Opportunity to scale peaks of the famous Canadian Selkirk range this summer will be offered to new members who have made good during the spring practice in the vicinity. The group, which boasts a membership of 115, claimed that a member of the Nanda Devi party hd never climbed before his Freshman year, learned the arts of the rope on Rattlesnake Hill...
...first game of last week's World Series between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees, Pitcher Carl Hubbell of the Giants made just one mistake. That was a pitch which Yankee Outfielder Selkirk knocked into the right-field stands in the third inning for a home run. In a cold rain that started in the second inning, kept up throughout the game, Giant batters slowly ground out runs against Yankee Pitcher Ruffing-one in the fifth on Bartell's homer, another in the sixth, four more in the eighth when the Yankee infield blundered. Giants...
...Philadelphia Athletics in 1932. It set a new major-league record of 992 runs batted in for the season. Five players drove in more than 100 runs each. A grand total of 1,065 runs just missed an-other all-time high. With Gehrig, Dickey, Di Maggio, Selkirk, Crosetti and Lazzeri in the lineup, the Yankees appear to be the hardest-hitting team in the history of modern baseball. Last week they were 2-to-1 favorites to beat an adversary which had a fair claim to equal distinction of another sort...
American League - Position - National League Gehrig (N. Y.) First Base Collins (St. L.) Gehringer (Det.) Second Base Herman (Chi.) Appling (Chi.) Shortstop Durocher (St.L.) Higgins (Phil.) Third Base Whitney (Phil.) Selkirk (N. Y.) Left Field Medwick (St.L.) Averill (Cleve.) Centre Field Galan (Chi.) DiMaggio(N.Y.) Right Field Demaree (Chi.) Ferrell (Boston) Catcher Hartnett (Chi.) Grove (Boston) Pitcher Davis...
...dozen cars, but only four of them are permanently there, one of them a beautifully appointed Rolls-Royce. When the King and Queen invited Lady Alice to Balmoral, after the announcement of her engagement, she and her mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, traveled the 200-odd miles from Selkirk in this car, and Lady Alice relieved the chauffeur at the wheel when they reached the Scottish Highlands. This Rolls-Royce belongs to Lady Alice's eldest brother, the Earl of Dalkeith...