Word: ands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"The score-board dates back to 1900, when Arthur Irwin, former scout of the New York American Baseball Club, and now with Rochester, wishing to lessen the difficulty which the spectators had in following the play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At...
For the energetic little wig-wagger is the eyes of the score-board, and the spectator who can interpret his contortions can follow the game as readily as if he were on the sidelines.
Morris is, in ordinary life, a hustling and successful broker on the Boston Curb Exchange, and in addition has been a member of the State Legislature, representing old Ward 15 in 1915 and 1916, and in 1917-1918 serving in the Massachusetts Senate representing new Wards 9, 10, 11. Upon...
"In 1905 I became interested in the work. At the suggestion of Mr. Irwin I devised a set of signals, made up from a combination of Army wig-wag and Stock Exchange signals, by which I can signal in an instant to the score-board the "downs," "yard line," "yards...
"Of course the receiver of these signals has an equally important, though less spectacular part to play. At the Stadium Mr. Frank E. Belliveau takes my signals. Mr. Belliveau interprets them and directs the half-dozen men who are stationed behind the score-board; they, in turn, set the various...