Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue Jays avenged their only loss of the season by coming back from a 4-2 deficit early in the second quarter and dominating play throughout the rest of the contest...
...slow-speed, hard-surface courts worked to Ismaiol's advantage throughout the contest. An exceedingly quick athlete, Ismaiol plays a very steady game, making virtually no errors and keeping the ball in play...
...same issue, an Education story about a limerick contest staged by Connecticut's Mohegan Community College ("A Rich Orgy of Witty Ditties") brought in a batch of limericks in reply. Some readers claimed that the contest limericks did not scan. But most scolded Limerick Judge Isaac Asimov for his assertion that in limerick writing, "women tend to be dirtier but less clever than men." Countered Reader Margaret Mitchell Dukore of Kaneohe, Hawaii...
Umpire Joe Driscoll halted that contest during a steady downpour with the Blue Hens leading in the top of the seventh at 1:30 p.m. Both squads remained in the dugouts until 4:30, then returned with rain still coming down hard at 9 p.m., but officials ruled conditions unplayable and Delaware owned...
...weatherman had it in for the Crimson--it never got to show its late-inning strength. Umpire Joe Driscoll of Arlington watched the rain fall not-so-gently on the grassy plains of Holyoke High for four innings before suspending the contest at the end of the sixth, prompting coach Loyal Park to moan, "What happened out there was inexcusable. And a local guy did it to us." And he had a point--the wet stuff was falling no harder in the sixth than it had been in the eventually-fatal third when the Blue Hens scored their...