Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest on some $50,000,000 of notes. Last week Wall Street still buzzed with gossip about the historic auction and much of it was about the two men who had elected to replace the House of Morgan as the Brothers Van Sweringen's current keepers-George A. Ball and George A. Tomlinson...
Though both George A.'s were seated close to 0. P. Van Sweringen at the auction, they were strange faces to Manhattan newsmen. Spare, bald-pated George Alexander Ball is a power in Indiana politics, a Republican National Committeeman, a close friend of onetime Senator James Watson and divides the honor of being the First Citizen of Muncie. Ind. with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie...
...Penn's game until the middle of the last quarter when a sophomore back named Jack White, star of last year's freshman team, trotted into the Princeton backfield. He spurred it down the field in a yo-yd. march, carried the ball across the goal line, held it while Sandbach kicked the extra point that won, 7-to-6. Other major games...
...Motley rang the bell three times. Twice his mates, Manheimer and Motley set the ball up for him when they stole the ball from the opposition and passed quickly and accurately. The other time saw Motley blast it into the corner from a scrimmage several yards...
...three occasions the scorer put the ball away on his first crack at it, an art which until yesterday Coach Carr's men had shown little sign of mastering...