Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Takahito, eleven years old, youngest son of the Mikado, is already famous as an irrepressible and raucous baseball fan. When he attends one of the numerous interuniversity Japanese ball games a special dais is erected for him near third base, and he invariably insists that the game be played to a finish whether or not rain descends...
...cries from the gallery; Von Elm returning this courtesy; Jones carefully lining a putt on the 17th which he must sink if the match was to go on . . . and Jones missing that putt and standing with a cigaret in his mouth while he saw Von Elm tap his ball into the hole; while he saw a roistering squad of spectators hoist Von Elm, to their shoulders, while he saw Von Elm, bobbing and blushing after his magnificent exploit; receive the gold cup that meant the national amateur championship...
...Short Hills, N. J., a golfer addressed his ball to play the long first hole of the Baltusrol course. The ball disappeared over a highway on his left. He tried another, whacked it after its fellow. A third ball also, journeyed to limbo. A fourth landed on the fairway. The golfer, having now played seven, took 12 for the hole (par 5). He was Robert Gardner, holder of many golf titles, U. S. Walker cup team captain, setting forth to qualify for the national amateur. It was just one of those freak episodes that can happen in golf tournaments, even...
Concerning the technique of Cochet's victory-how he popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their...
Little did these two men look like the two first tennis players of the world as they lobbed and patted the ball at each other. Lacoste, whose father is director of the famed Hispano-Suiza Motor Co., seemed barely able to keep open his night-club eyes. Borotra leaped for the net, strained, caracoled, grimaced, and wagged his jaunty head-to no avail. Lacoste's precision was too much for him. In the first and third sets Borotra took the lead by breaking through his friend's service; but Lacoste's lobs were too accurate, Lacoste...