Word: ballyhooer
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...blinded their judgment. One who was not bothered by such talk was Louis Little, the big-framed, booming-voiced coach who in four years at Columbia had built its football stature up from puniness. He worked his team hard for the Rose Bowl game, diligently guarded them from ballyhoo, banked on Stanford's overconfidence...
...Wall Street rival, the late James R. Keene, in the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay at any cost, he sent to England for Tod Sloan. It cost him the traveling expenses of the jockey and his absurd retinue, plus a reputed fee of $25,000. Astride Financier Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey, Sloan won a masterful race, quickly returned to his glories abroad. His downfall came when the English Jockey Club revoked his license on charges that he had bet on his own races. U. S. racing associations respectfully upheld the English action, unhorsed Jockey Sloan at home...
Died. William O'Connell ("W. 0.") McGeehan, 54, famed sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune); of heart disease; at San Island Beach, Ga. He pierced the fog of ballyhoo around professional sport, turned a fishy eye on promoters, managers and their proteges, invented an elaborately sardonic slang...
...administration completely forgot its ideals, however, when it accepted this invitation. It means a tremendous spurt in that ballyhoo and sophomoric enthusiasm deplored in recent years by men and women--including President Butler--who have seen the growing vices which such unmitigated emphasis was developing...
...Athletics has wisely and consistently refused to acquiesce. Should Harvard release Yale from the September 15 agreement, it will simply mean that football practice at Cambridge will have to commence sooner, that sniffer schedules will eventually be arranged; it will mean a return to all the emphasis and ballyhoo from which Harvard has, with some success been trying to extricate its football...