Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What did you call that ball?" she asked the ponderous Tolley. Her voice shook, her face was furious. For the first time in her life she was showing emotion on a tennis court...
...report the Britten metric standards bill, although hearings on the bill were begun Feb. 1. Congressman Fred Albert Britten is from Chicago. He is prominent in the House on naval affairs and it was he who was given credit for bringing the next Army-Navy foot ball game to his city. Incidentally his business is building construction, and that accounts for his introducing the bill for a world quart (as well as a "world pound" and a "world yard"), a measure which if passed, as it probably will be eventually, may have more effect in its way than even...
...California. Pop said that I would drive hard, and aim at the corners of the court; the reporter wanted to know if this was true. . . I am afraid it is. And it is also true that I am going to play with a wooden racket, and a felt-covered ball, and that I am going...
...first half of the game failed to show any very decided advantage on the part of either team and ended with a score of 12 to 8 in favor of the Freshmen. After the half the schoolboys opened up a rapid fire offense which carried the ball repeatedly to the Freshman net. The Crimson quintet rallied and hammered the edge of the Springfield basket with long and close shots which failed to score...
Tuesday. Paired with C. F. [C. F. Aeschleman, Swiss star], I won another match in the Nice mixed doubles. He is the best kind of partner because he is so modest. I think he is a little afraid of me. Whenever there is any doubt about a ball, he lets me take it, but he is always there when I need him. Critics who saw us play today (we defeated Mile. Neveu and Capt. Christie in two love sets, and then Miss Evelyn Woods and Mr. Caulfield, 6-0, 6-1) said that they thought we would give Suzanne...