Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appearance was somewhat suspicious they were followed. When they disappeared into the next entry they were forced through one of the door-ways by several watchmen and caught red-handed with a pack of tickets, at 50 cents each, which were to admit the bearer to the First Grand Ball, to be given by the Longfellow Social Club." Two of them were fined $10 each and the third...
George Huff of Illinois University said he could not see any difference in a ball played receiving money and a runner a gold watch, yet one was a professional and the other an amateur. Dr. Young of Cornell upheld essentially the same view...
...Nichols '86 spoke strongly against summer baseball. He said that he held no serious objection to boys playing for money but that if they do they should not be permitted to play on college teams. He thought it right, however, to play ball temporarily in order to earn money toward a college education. He pointed out that the longer a man plays baseball the less fitted for a business or professional life he becomes. The temperament that makes a man a good ball-player generally makes him a poor business...
...united effort. The glorification of Brickley at the expense of his colleagues is justified because of the method of scoring. He did what the others could have done. He won the game by his own skill, and not merely as the man who chanced to carry the ball on the final rush...
...Senior elections in main ball of Phillips Brooks House...