Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in the history of the Copley-Plaza, three orchestras will provide the music for a single ball. "Billy" Lozzez and "Bert" Lowe will have the main burden of supplying rhythm for the dancers, the Barbary Coast Jazz band of Dartmouth playing a series of special selections for a short time only...
...Holy Cross band did a fine and courteous thing in playing a Harvard tune first, and then when the Harvard band played and the general expectation was that they would be equally courteous, they not merely failed to play a Holy Cross tune, but played and Harvard sand--a Harvard-Yale football song...
Cannot our band extend to every team against whom we play the courtesy of playing their song first, and cannot we use general phrases in our football songs instead of just singing about Yale when we are actually playing someone else...
First Game. Mastiff-faced Joe Harris (Washington), no blood relative of Manager Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, but sharing his ideas, caused the first outbreak of hysteria by slamming a home run into the arms of the band behind a temporary fence in right field. Aged Roger Peckinpaugh (discarded by the Yankees as too gouty) came up to bat in the fifth inning, hit one of Pitcher Meadows' (Pittsburgh) offerings, filled bases which already contained Harris and Bluege. Up came Rice. Oof! Strike one. . . . Sugg! Strike two. . . .Pitcher Meadows smiled, wound up to pitch strike three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing...
Fourth Game. The glamor faded a little. No band. Less bunting. More the atmosphere of an ordinary ball game. Johnson, refreshed, allowed only three clean hits, passed only two men (one in the first inning when he was cold and one in the ninth when he was tired). Pitcher Yde (Pittsburgh) gave journalists a chance to make puns about Yde and seek. Goose Goslin hit him for a home run, his second in two days; so did Joe Harris. Bucky Harris, called out after a slide to the plate in the seventh inning, screamed like a terrified horse. Umpire Moriarity...