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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty thousand people sat in New York City's Yankee Stadium, where 50,000 people have sat before and will sit again. The sky was blue, the crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were...
...morning of the finals, Glenna Collett took fours on every hole of the first nine, except on the eighth where she only had to hit her ball twice. Thus she broke a woman's record for St. Andrew's. By lunch time Golfer Collett was two up. But Miss Wethered, after a lunch of salad and cold chicken, had not lost her confident one-sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett...
...Wales has a handicap of 16. His chief faults have been hurrying his iron shots, topping drives, putting carelessly. Last week Walter Hagen played with him and said his handicap should be lowered. Explained Hagen: "He plays like a real student of the game, standing right up to the ball and hitting it squarely. He is a deliberate putter. He plays much better than I thought...
...Green started a comeback in the fourth, a fielder's choice, a triple by Walsh, Indian third baseman, and a passed ball sending two markers over the rubber. After a scoreless fifth, the Dartmouth diamond forces went into a one-run lead. Two hits and Stokes' four-ply drive, coupled with some errors, gave the visitors a 5 to 4 advantage...
With an impressive record of nine victories and only one defeat behind them, the Dartmouth diamond forces will come to Cambridge today in an attempt to wallop the already faltering Crimson ball tossers. The game which is set for 4 o'clock should find the Hanoverians at their peak with their undefeated hurling ace Hollstron on the mound...