Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catching berth, left vacant by the graduation of Henry Chauncey '27, reported to Coach F. F. Mitchell: R. H. Barbour '30, R. W. Turner '28, D. P. Donaldson '28, and W. W. Lord '28, who will give up his regular position in the outfield to make a bid for the backstop post...
...Crimson pinned its hopes on the running events, but the Ithacans gained a decisive win in the annual three-cornered battle by a 12 point margin. The meet was in results a repetition of the 1922 battle, but the Crimson runners and weight men were making a more threatening bid for honors. The victory of J. N. Watters '26 over Captain E. B. Kirby of Cornell, intercollegiate mile champion, is described as one of the indoor classics of all time. Fifteen yards behind Kirby and tiring fast, Watters uncorked a terrific sprint in the last two laps of the race...
...sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players, for a $100,000 bid...
...until 1920 that the next Triangular meet was held. Cornell now took the place of Penn State on the schedule and from that year the meet has been an annual institution. The supremacy of Dartmouth in the beginning first gave way to Ithacan prowess, but the most consistent bid for laurels has been made by the Crimson track men during the past three years. The scores for the nine meets are significant...
...Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...