Word: clout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Mitchell's squad has hit more than one circuit clout this spring. DeRham has now joined the select club of home run hitters, formerly including among its members only Burns, Sullivan, and Zarakov...
...Crimson scoring began in the seventh when Ford singled with two men on base, both of whom scored, tying up the game. In the next inning. Chauncey got three bases on a long clout and scored on Nordberg's single. A moment later, Captain Jones added three more runs with a long four-ply hit. Jones, Linscott, and Chauncey, with two hits apiece, were the most effective of the Freshmen on the offense...
...Nestos of North Dakota. "When he sits on a chair he obliterates it; he throws back his great shoulders, spreads his elbows and knees, settles and solidifies as if he were a statue in the park. He looks like Henry Ward Beecher with a touch of Barnum and a clout or two of John L. Sullivan. He is Paul Whiteman with a Babe Ruth punch. He is an American viking...
...first round the flyweight drew blood from the lip of the blond. Each succeeding round Pancho opened up the cut with a clump or a clout and the blood spurted down the Buddy jaw. Each time Bud came back for more punishment, the human flea bit him. But he remained thoroughly game...
...fans who were present saw neither "Babe" Ruth or Casey Stengel clout the ball for the circuit, but Dugan of the Yankees made a round of bases, saving the spectators from disappointment...