Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CAROLINE PEDDLE BALL. Harwinton, Conn...
...bulletin: SACCO MURDERED! (Loud but orderly cries of indignation, booes, catcalls. But no fiercer than the noise that a 10,000 base ball-crowd makes when a favorite disappoints. Flares and the Internationale, which soon died...
...told them to stop playing, their snarls ceased to be effective. Hence Devormer pere was stung into action. Bursting into the midst of the childish argument the- catcher seized Patrolman Gallagher by an arm. He shouted, full of a proud fury: "These kids are all right! They can play ball right here if they want to! They don't get in anybody's way! Let them alone...
They laid Mr. Welsh out at an undertaking parlor in his U. S. Army uniform, captain's rank. Actors, ball players, politicians and 1,500 miscellaneous came to see him. Soldiers escorted him to a crematorium. Among his pallbearers were Benny Leonard, Johnny Dundee, Middleweight Champion Mickey Walker, Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Jack Dempsey, against whom Mrs. Welsh had railed, saying Mr. Welsh had once defended him against "slacker" charges only to be ignored last week when he asked Mr. Dempsey to pay a sickroom call, telegraphed flowers from California...
...changes his ball every six holes for fear he may have knocked it off centre...