Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the heading of "Play Ball [TIME, Apr. 19, SPORT] you list the different National and American League baseball teams with their nicknames. You stated that the "Tygers" were the Detroit, American League team. The word "Tygers" should be spelled with an "i" instead of a "y." The Augusta, South Atlantic League team is known as the "Tygers," the main reason for this being in compliment to Mr. Ty Cobb of the Detroit team. Mr. Cobb got his early start in Augusta, and still maintains his residence here...
...Crimson batsmen could not fathon the fast hooks of Fons until the fourth inning, when Tobin singled after Captain Todd had flied out. Chauncey, the next man up connected with the second ball pitched for a hard bingle, scoring Tobin. Sullivan flied out to the first baseman, and Ullman, the next man up, hit safely between first and second. Chauncey counted when Doherty, the visiting receiver, dropped the throw home. Barbee drove out a single...
Cote led off the fatal sixth with a long blow to center field which Burns captured after a hard run. Morrissey, the next men up drove a hard ground ball at the University third sacker and reached first on the error. He stole second, took third on Savage's out to the infield. The next man to face Barbee hit a fast bounding ball down the third base line which Zarakov bobbled. Freeman scored both men with a long single to left which went for a safety when Todd slipped and fell, and spiked the plate a moment later...
Last Saturday, while the University team was proving its title as a dangerous contender in collegiate circles with a win over the strong Pennsylvania nine, the Crusaders defeated the formidable Fordham ball tossers for their seventh victory out of nine starts this season. The Worcester team continued to hit the ball hard behind the masterly hurling of Fons, the Freshman find who has won five tussels this year without a loss. The only set backs suffered by the Purple squad this season have been at the hands of Dartmouth and the Quantico Marines. The latter were downed in the first...
...their opening games, the Viennese amazed the onlookers with their speed and long, swinging passes. The underslung, knuckle-kneed U. S. players met them with a massed defense, a short-passing attack. Though the ball flew like a heavy bird four times as often toward the U. S. goal as it hurtled like a bullet toward the Hakoans', it entered the latter three times, the former never...