Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...league conclave moved on to Chicago last week for the major-league meetings. The National League promptly proceeded to make no news by re-electing President Ford Frick for three years at $27,000 per year. To the meetings of the overlords went U. S. baseball manufacturers to discuss balls of varying degrees of deadness, which had been tried out last season. The National League, which thought the American League was bound to follow its choice, forthwith voted to adopt the No. 4 ball, one degree deader than the ball used last year, on the theory that a deader ball...
...Yardlings dropped a poorly played game to the B. U. Freshmen 42-28 after the Varsity encounter. Their chief difficulty seemed to be an inability to hold onto the ball. Little real basketball was displayed by either quintet...
Starting fast the Feslermen worked the ball in close under the enemy basket with Lowman converting on a pass from Charlie Lutz. With rapid breaks the Varsity increased their lead by short shots until the score stood 19-7 after less than ten minutes of play...
With the new rules of eliminating the tipp-off and limiting the time a team may keep the ball behind the center line and in the "hole", the game has speeded up greatly and is subsequently harder on the players. For this reason the lack of reserve strength may cause the Crimson difficulty in future League contests. Most noticeable weakness of the Varsity substitutes has been on the defense. In games to date the opposition scored comparatively at will when the first string cagers were withdrawn from action...
...game is on ice. Herrick especially tires easily. Because the center reserves are inexperienced and not as yet ready for Varsity competition, it has been necessary to move Lowman over from his forward position. With height less emphasized for a center under the new ruling which gives the ball to the scored on team after a basket, the team will be at no great disadvantage with Lowman in the pivot post...