Word: chick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion, may we ask, why the article? What did Douglas or the great Southwest ever do to YOU or yours? Why should YOU object to Hal Chase, Chick Gandil or Buck Weaver making an honest living in the only manner that their education permits...
...paid them to "throw" the World's Series. The gambler is now a respected Realtor, but those players ? athletes, as fast and heady as ever spit on a bat ? were ousted from organized baseball. One of them was Buck Weaver, a third-baseman; another" was first-bagger Chick Gandil. They stepped behind the curtain that hid Hal Chase, perhaps the most graceful ballplayer that ever lived, who had also left baseball with a cloud on his name...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...
...Columbus, Ohio, Charles W. ("Chick") Harley, remembered by the football world for the crooked smile and the crooked, sidestepping gait that were his when dazzling broken-field runs won two Conference championships for Ohio State (1916, 1917), last week besought a court to strike from its record lunacy proceedings that were brought against him, successfully...
...Chick" Harley was an all-American halfback in 1916 and 1919. After being graduated by Ohio State, he and other Conference players formed a team, at Chicago, in 1920, called the "Staleys" and joined the National Professional Football League. In a game, Harley was severely injured. Normally a mild-mannered man, Harley became morose and pugnacious in the spring of 1922, possibly as the result of his injury. He went to sanatoriums, seemed to recover, then relapsed. Friends told of his "cleaning out" restaurants and theatres, of his annoying the family of a former sweetheart by nocturnal demonstrations. The sweetheart...