Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puny brown flunkies scoured floors, made them slippery with shining wax, lighted candles. In strutted hundreds of preening women, gorgeously gowned in native plumery. A formal ball was being held in the provincial palace. The guest of honor, Mr. Thompson, strode not without dignity to the centre of the immense ballroom, made a speech in which he urged that the acreage of coconut crops be increased, since coconuts are essential in making oils, soap, cosmetics and substitutes for butter, lard...
This Lewis N. White was as deliberate as Clothier, but in another fashion. He did not stroll. He lolled. He seemed to drawl with his feet. Between points he took his ease, but as soon as the ball was put into play he became surprisingly galvanized. He beat Takeiichi Harada, seeded Japanese, and got into the finals. His match against Champion Tilden was not exciting. The report had gotten about the clubhouse that the champion was planning to make a four-set match of it and to run the Texan ragged with drives to the corners, trap shots, and every...
...Springfield. Ball players of Peoria and Springfield, Ill., in the "Three Eye" league (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa) slumped into their showers one evening last week, footsore and weary. They had had a terrible afternoon. Peoria batsmen had knocked 27 safe hits, trudged around the bases to score 23 runs. And Springfield batsmen had made 22 safe hits; had frequently been obliged to take their bases on balls; had worn their cleats down to buttons scoring 33 runs. Pitchers had come and gone with kaleidoscopic effect, tiring the eyes. The outfielders of the two teams had chased, collectively, ten home runs, four...
Western Amateur. A golfing sphere came to rest between the twin trunks of a tree about 60 feet from the ninth green. Frank Dolp, of Portland, Ore., turned his back to the pin, played a niblick shot between his legs, saw his ball stop 14 feet from the cup. He holed out in two, while Harrison R. ("Jimmie") Johnston, winner of the qualifying medal with a brilliant 141 and favorite to capture the Western Amateur title at St. Paul, missed a two-foot putt. On the 18th green Johnston's putter again faltered. He missed a six-footer...
...papers have been prodigal in reporting her recent doings-how she won many tinkling little Riviera tournaments and lost to Suzanne Lenglen and got appendicitis. She made no apologies for that match at Cannes. Mlle. Lenglen beat her because she is, still, a better match player. They hit the ball about equally hard; Miss Wills is somewhat the better stylist; Mlle. Lenglen is faster on her feet. But when they played at Cannes the sunburned gentlemen at the courtside were betting two-to-one against Miss Wills, and the odds, at their next encounter, will probably be the same. Odds...