Word: balke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Balk is current nomenclature of two sports. Baseball pitchers make a false motion to throw (called a balk); opponents are allowed to advance one base. Not so in billiards. In high class championship play, lines on the green cloth tablebed are drawn parallel to and 18 inches from the cushions. When two of the object balls are driven into any of the eight spaces bounded by these lines and the rectangles of their intersection such balls are "in balk...
Famed championships are played at 18.2 balkline. This means only one carom (popularly called billiard) can be scored until one of the object balls is driven out of balk; on the second carom one object ball must cross the line...
...Southerners' shortstop had a bad day in the field, being guilty of five misplays, and very nearly presented the game to Harvard by himself. A passed ball, a couple of stolen bases and a balk aided in the Crimson victory...
...Oliver. Three base hits, Lord, Armistend. Stolen bases, Ullman, Chase, Zarakov, Burns 2, Brooks. Bases on balls, off Howard 5, off Creson 4. Sacrifice hit, Jones. Sacrifice fly, Chauncey. Struck out, by Howard 3, by Creson 2. Passed balls, Chauncey, Oliver. Hit by pitched ball, by Creson 1 (Burns). Balk, Creson. Left on bases, Harvard 9, Vanderbilt 8. Hits, off Howard 11 in 8 2-3 innings, off Booth none in 1-3 innings. Winning pitcher, Howard. Umpires, Stafford and Barry. Time of game, 2 hours, 16 minutes...
...France and Italy balk at the conference, it is possible that the U. S., Great Britain and Japan will get together on another 5-5-3 agreement...