Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having at last secured one of the highest priced teams in the country to represent them on the diamond, the members of the lampoon definitely decided at a late hour last night not to cancel their annual baseball game with the CRIMSON, to be held on Soldiers Field this afternoon...
"The Harvard Lampoon, with the graciousness and condescension born of its longstanding victories over the CRIMSON's unclean hordes, and with the usual, useless request that said literary abortion and misconception--namely and to wit, CRIMSON--refrain from such misdemeanors as are punishable by law (expectorating on the floor, throwing...
Mr. AUBURN STREET, May 12.--After a three hour conference late this afternoon CRIMSON representatives succeeded in forcing the cringing cohorts of Lampy to sign articles for the annual diamond contest of brain and brawn. Immediately after the conference, however, in a desperate spirit of bravado, Lampy handed the CRIMSON...
Once in this position, the leaders had little trouble in keeping their advantage and the two shells see-sawed down the course, spurt answering spurt with no appreciable change in the relative positions. As Harvard bridge loomed ahead the seconds started a lrive that carried them almost abreast their opponents...
Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, is tired of heaving hogsheads on the New York water front. He issued the following blanket challenge: " I'll agree to fight Willard, Floyd Johnson, Firpo and Jack McAuliffe II, in the same ring on May 12 at the Yankee Stadium, and I don'...