Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commissioner. Last week the letters were published; scandal flared. It seems, from Leonard's "grudge" testimony and from the letters, that Tyrus Cobb, Tristram Speaker, Joseph Wood and Leonard agreed that Detroit should win the ball game of Sept. 24, 1919, from Cleveland, and that they four would bet on it. Cleveland had second place in the league clinched; Detroit could be allowed to win the game and gain third place without harm to Cleveland, did win that game, 9 to 5. Cobb and Speaker both testified last week that they had not violated baseball ethics. Wood...
Campus Character. George E. Tinker, operator of Jimmie's Lunch nearby the Harvard Yard, won a bet from two Harvard undergraduates last week. They presented him with a quart of gin, bet he could not drink it down. He won, fell under the counter in agony, died later without naming the losers...
...that lady I distinguished in your company at the recent intercollegiate football contest? That was not what you have so aptly stated she bet on Brown...
...Coffin sees no necessity for "scrapping the churches now a work." Rather is the call for bet ter preparation of men to minister in them. "A man who is no 'mighty in the Scriptures' is likely to be feeble and of brief service in a position of Christian leader ship. . . The trouble-maker in the Church, whether he be reactionary or radical, is the man without perspective of the course of Christian history, so that he repeat: ancient blunders and is unenriched by past discoveries." Such a man must acquire "a theology which conserves all the Christian experience...