Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...players who occupied the bench on Saturday will be all right by the end of the week. Zarakov and Maher both could have been used against Princeton in the coaches had seen fit. Cheek, on the other hand, still remains an unknown quantity. Some say he will see action against Brown at the end of the week; others that he is out for the rest of the year. He was in the Stadium watching practice yesterday, but unable to don a uniform...
...absence of Bench at quarterback Bunnell performed well, using good generalship and directing his men with fine judgement, but nevertheless the Army diagnosed the plays all too easily...
While the first team was going through its comparatively restful afternoon, the second team scrimmaged the scrubs. Bench, who has been on the sidelines since the Brown contest, renewed his acquaintance with the pigskin and ran the substitutes with Lindley, Scott and Cutler assisting him in carrying the ball. Both Lindley and Scott played for a few minutes against West Point. On the second string line were Coleman and Wolfe, ends; Root and Conway, tackles; Vandergrift and Frank Butterworth, guards, and Earl, center. Cutler took the ball over twice on line plunges but on two other occasions the scrubs were...
...recovering its celebrated Oil Reserves, No. 1 and No. 3*, leased respectively by onetime Secretary of the Interior Fall, in a spirit commonly described as mischievous, to Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, oil merchants. Last week, Judge Paul J. McCormick mounted his U. S. District Court bench in the Federal Building at Los Angeles, and listened to the beginnings of US. v. the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. (dominated by Mr. Doheny). There came before him: Lawyer Owen J. Roberts, for the plaintiff, who said he would show that the leases constituted a scheme between Messrs. Fall...
Lawyer Louis Marshall, presiding, took exception to Mr. Darrow's criticism of the bench. "It has been said that the courts never assign first-class lawyers to defend poor men charged with murder. I can give testimony that this is not true in New York City. ... I say this in the interest of a fair view of a great subject." Lewis Lawes, warden of Sing Sing, also present, indicated that he was op posed to capital punishment...