Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision. Their pitching is good, but when it comes to hitting their prowess is questionable. Fielding on the spring trip wasn't anything to write home about either--in the Navy game alone the Yale infield was guilty of five miscues, but chalk most of it up to inexperience...
Fresh from their ten-inning uprising and consequent victory over Columbia Saturday, the Crimson are favored to chalk up their second straight win in this, the first of a two game home-and-home series with the Terriers. The game is scheduled to get under way at 4 o'clock...
...sprint basis yesterday by kissing fifteen girls in as many minutes. When he was asked if he had also done his kissing on a bet, he was reported to have replied, "No, I'm thinking of taking the pennant from the Yankees this year, and I had to chalk up a few scratch singles...
Down the alley now the pins looked hazy. Bowler McGeorge felt a little sick at his stomach. His palms sweated so that he had to dry them. He dabbed his fingers with chalk, got a grip of sorts on himself, picked up the ball, sighted down the maple strip, and let fly. It was his only erratic shot. There was a gasp as it crossed over, broke toward the Brooklyn (left) side. But on the left side is the 1-2 pocket, which bowlers sometimes call Last Chance Gulch, and right in there Bowler McGeorge's last straying hook...
Some years ago, Dorothy Canfield, in her nonliterary self (Mrs. John Redwood Fisher), served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn even their academic freedom for a little ready cash. This, at any rate, is the premise of Seasoned Timber...