Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Ormond French, who has been in and out of hot water oftener than a four-minute egg, has again put his haughty family squarely behind the eight ball...
Most exciting game of the tournament was the 3-to-0 women's final, in which the Kriegs' pitcher, jolly Bessie Johnson, held the Down Drafts of Chicago hitless until two were out in the last inning, then Marge Brown of the Chicago team smacked the ball down the right field foul line for a double...
Little has been said of the excellent athletic program carried on in the Camp. Soft ball was the predominant sport, volley ball was a close second, while the barnyard game of horse-shoes took the "spare" time of many enthosiasts. "It's a ringer" was heard many an afternoon between close of drill and retreat. The final game of the soft ball league, played on Visitors' Day, was a thriller, such as one reads about in the sports magaiznes...
Most spectacular maneuver of jai alai is the rebate (pronounced re-bó-tay): recovering the ball off the back wall in a wide sweeping arc that usually topples the player to the ground...
...quartet was Piston, whose real name is Estanislao Maistegui, but was nicknamed Piston when he first started to play the game in his native San Sebastián. In a rough & tumble doubles game, in which the lead seesawed with almost as much rhythm as the bounding of the ball, the favorites Piston & Segundo were finally nosed...