Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trust (it will endure for at least the next six months) was Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher, the retiring pastor of the Temple Baptist Church of Los Angeles, now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif. All last year he traveled about the country presenting his address "Play Ball." Baptists of all shades of doctrine grew to admire him, came to call him "the Baptist unifier," even though they disagreed with his efforts to reconcile the parties. Last week he was elected President of the Northern Baptists...
...ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White Club because it admitted to its tournaments, on equal terms with nobility's whitest cockades...
...regulars, have been hitting consistently in the past two games, but not quite often enough to maintain their averages of a week ago. Todd is still ahead of the Harvard third baseman, but his hitting mark has shrunk from .367 to .351. Zarakov at present is meeting the ball for an average of .326, whereas a week ago he stood eight points higher...
...defeating Princeton and Brown within a space of two days, the Crimson ball tossers furnished one of the biggest upsets of the current college diamond season. The ease with which the Tigers had downed the University nine in the first game made them overwhelming favorites to repeat at Princeton the following week. Behind some remarkably effective twirling by John Barbee '28 and some timely hitting by the Crimson batters, the University turned back Princeton with comparative case...
...University baseball team won both of its week end games, thus putting an end to its losing streak that had extended for five straight games. In one of the biggest upsets of the current baseball season the Crimson played errorless ball behind Barbee's fine pitching to defeat Princeton at Princeton on Saturday, 5 to 0. Yesterday, playing in Providence, the Harvard outfit downed Brown, recent conqueror of Dartmouth, by a score of 7 to 5. The Second team and the Freshman nine, closing their seasons in New Haven against Yale on Saturday, did less well, both teams losing...