Word: baller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quintet, a 6 foot, 2 inch athlete with plenty of experience. Sid Levinson, from Rochester, Walter Reinhard, formerly of Weequahic High, Newark; and John Townsend, of Friends Central, Philadelphia, also are being counted on to lift the Quaker court fortunes. There are, as well, Gene Davis, the sophomore foot-baller; Ray Frick, football captain-elect: Johnny Dutcher, who also played football; Eugene Weisberg and George Dietrick. Reserves from the 1939 team include Tony Caputo, who doubles as a baseball pitcher, and Tom McNichol, the latest of Pennsylvania's famous basketball family of McNichols...
...ball-minded Harvard men will be cheering for the underdog this time, despite their stand in the last Civil War. It is not because the owner of Juicy Fruit and Spearmint was rich enough to buy a sore-armed Dizzy Dean; not because of Big Bill Lee, the speed-baller with the movie profile. Both of these have shown fight--Dean, whose fast ball has passed on and who now pitches with his heart; Lee, who took the mound on four out of five days during the pennant spurt. Rather it is because of that Irish catcher who hails from...
Dame Fortune smiled favorably on the bespectacled slow-baller during the next canto, but smiles turned to frowns in the fourth as two B. U. hits, and a walk counted two more tallies for the opposition...
...Saturday morning two years ago, a Packard roadster with the top down started from San Mateo, Calif, for a weekend trip to Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...
...White House at 7 a.m." was the title of a magazine article in the New York Times last week in which "Hoover-ball" and its players were described. The information was supplied by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, a regular "Hoover-baller." For the first time it was revealed that Hoover-ball is a game, specially invented, played with a special lightweight medicine ball (6 lb.) over a high net on tennis courts. Four such courts are marked out on the White House lawn, moved frequently to keep from wearing out the grass. Excerpts: "When the setup is just what...