Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members; are in danger of losing none; have good chances of gaining from four to ten seats. However, they do not forget the late Senator Medill McCormick's poignant remark after the 1924 Republican Convention: "All we Republicans have got is the certainty that the Democrats will ball things up for themselves, somehow...
...this tournament, the Bay Counties. Next year she won the state championship. When she was 16 she went east and won the girl's national. She still had her hair down, two thick brown ropes that gently flogged her shoulders as she moved after the ball. In 1922 she played through all the important tournaments, won the doubles with Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, and gave Molla Mailory a run for the singles. The sports writers boosted her and she acquired a "public." You could not help liking the steady eyes under the crisp sun-visor,* the strong, immature body...
...Philadelphia Athletics are in reality far remote from puberty. Babe Adams, 44, is the oldest player in either league and still pitches irregularly for Pittsburgh, but Jack Quinn pitches his regular turn for Philadelphia at the age of 41. The average span of big league life for a ball player is eight years. The youngest good player today is Lindstrom of the New York Giants...
...driver of Robert Tyre Jones swung down, flicked a blade of grass, a chip of rubber, came to rest over his right shoulder. Three hundred yards down the course the ball stopped rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that...
...Manhattan, John Kuck, of Kansas Teachers' College, picked up an eight-pound ball of iron, whirled it round him on a wire, sent it careering 68 feet ⅝ inches -a new world's record. Untired, he tossed the 16-lb. shot 48 feet 3½ inches for another record...