Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games behind it, the University baseball team has clashed with a few of its strongest opponents, suffering defeat at the hands of college nines for the first time this season. On Wednesday, May 9, one of the strongest Holy Cross aggregations to oppose the Crimson in recent years broke Harvard's string of victories, winning by an 8 to 5 count. Yesterday afternoon, the Main Liners from Villanova shut out the Crimson by an 8 to 0 score...
...take the lead from Captain H. W. Burns '28. Hardie, by virtue of a triple in the seventh inning of the encounter with the Wolverines, increased his total of three-baggers to six, still holding the lead in that department. His triple, scoring W. W. Lord '28 broke the 5 to 5 deadlock and started his team on the road to victory. Burns, who took the batting honors from John Prior 29 after the first few games of the season, has dropped to second place, his average being .393, a drop of 6 points in the last six clashes...
...Harvard Flying Club broke all its previous flight records for one day, when several pilots of that organization remained in the air yesterday for a total of six and one half hours...
Reenacting in miniature the scenes of the 1924 convention in New York, the mock Democratic convention last night broke a long deadlock between Governor Smith and former Secretary Baker by nominating Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. The deadlock lasted for eight ballots, but near midnight the rivals gave in and the convention agreed on a compromise candidate. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson, was nominated for vice-President on the first ballot...
These results would seem to give Yale the edge in Saturday's encounter, and augur a sixth consecutive defeat for the Crimson. Since 1922, when the University broke a four year Elli winning streak by a seven point margin, some of the closest meets on record have gone to the Blue. Two years ago Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26 led a fighting team rated as the underdog to a heroic effort which ended with Yale holding a 67 2-3 to 67 1-3 margin...