Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English game differs from its American counterpart chiefly in the matter of scoring. A point is tallied only when the server wins the rally in England. Another minor difference lies in the English rule that being struck by the ball at any time constitutes loss of the point...
Although the new Harvard baseball cage, designed to be one of the most completely equipped and modern in the country, has been under construction since last October, it will hardly be finished in time for the use of the Crimson ball tossers this spring. This means that the Harvard squad will be forced to endure another season of the indoor work inside the old edifice...
...inclusive by Wynant D. Hubbard is not only that Harvard players were injured by rough play in violation of the rules, but also that it was the deliberate policy of Princeton coaching to cripple "pivotal" players. The former Harvard tackle posts Princeton as guilty of "dirty" foot ball in two games in which he took part. He makes ten "accusations" against the Princeton "football system." In most of them he names Harvard players who, he says, had a leg broken, or knees "badly twisted," or a wrist dislocated, or were otherwise disabled by a foul play. One of his charges...
Flitting by at the Charity Ball...
Vienna, the Gay-Vienna, rival of Paris, was last week preparing joyfully to revive its famed Redouten Bal, its opera ball, after four years of "interruption." Its committee was resolved it should miss no facets of the sparkle of days before the War. The entire building of the Opera House was last week in readiness for dancers, whom five famed orchestras, no less, were to serve. With faith in her charms, Vienna invited the wealth and beauty of Europe to attend...