Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems likely that Willard Howard '28 will be Coach T. G. Mitchell's mound choice in this afternoon's game; F. B. Cutts '28 is the other alternative. the latter will most probably be sent into the box Thursday, while J. N. Barbee '28, will be saved for the contest with the Red and Blue at the end of the week. Howard has seen only 11 innings of service this season, but during his brief period of activity has performed very creditably. Travelling the full route against Maine, he fanned-five and allowed only seven scattered hits. In the last...
...nominee, named Oscar De Priest, was by no means the unanimous choice of his fellow blackamoors. William L. Dawson, a Negro who had run against Representative Madden in the April primary and lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned...
...years old." This, the epitaph on the beloved composer's tomb in Vienna, was quoted last week when Katherine Bacon gave a stirring piano recital of his works in Town Hall, Manhattan. Meanwhile, it was announced that some 500 manuscripts had been submitted for the $20,000 prize contest for orchestral compositions in honor of Franz Schubert, sponsored by the Columbia Phonograph Co. National origins of manuscripts were...
...They said that Famed Conjurer Dunninger was the legitimate successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a challenge to Dunninger for a "phenomena producing" contest. After watching the things which Dunninger did, Davenport withdrew his challenge because Mr. Pecoraro was alleged not to be in the right psychic condition...
...Yale players were unable to ship their ponies to Boston, and so will use mounts borrowed from the University squad and from private owners. Last week the Blue team showed its strength by downing Princeton 5 to 4 in a hard-fought contest. Today's tilt will not decide the supremacy of Harvard or Yale, as a return encounter will be played at New Haven on June...