Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairly good season, although it has not been able to defeat all its opponents. It beat the Moses Brown School men with the overwhelming score of 17 to 4, but a few days later lost to Dean Academy, 12 to 1. Last Saturday, playing better ball than at any other time during the season, to he Brown Freshmen rallied in the sixth inning with the score 2 to 1 against them, and pulled out a 5 to 2 win from the clutches of the Holy Cross players...
...these features has probably done more to attract the public interest than anything else. Always a fast game, the shortening and improvement of the lacrosse stick made it still faster. The original stick was little more than a flat net on a long handle, and to control the ball with it was little short of marvelous. The modern mentors of the game saw that a shorter stick with a deeper webbing would make for quicker, castle and more accurate handling of the ball. It would prevent a slowing up of the game by eliminating so much dropping of the ball...
...game is one of the most attractive features of lacrosse, as well as being one of the most difficult departments of the game. It takes from two to three years for a player to acquire the ability to handle his stick with facility, and to catch and throw the ball with speed and assurance. Teams clever enough to keep the ball in their possession, have a big advantage over players who are inferior in this respect. In fact, it has been so certain in the past that a team would drop the ball every few minutes of play, that until...
Coach Mitchell, believing that the intensive practice that his team has been having recently, has brought his charges around too fast, declared a holiday yesterday, and decreed that the Crimson ball players should journey to Braves Field to witness the opening game of the Braves-Giant series...
Coach Mitchell has always believed strongly that one of the best ways of learning baseball is to watch it as played by experts. The Boston Nationals yesterday not only showed the Harvard nine how ball is played, but also undertook to give the league-leading Giants a lesson. The lowly Braves, at the bottom of the race, downed the New York invaders...