Word: contests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock this afternoon the University nine will open its home season when it faces the reputedly strong diamond forces from West Point. Today's contest will be the sixth for the home team as compared to the two games that the Cadets have played...
...Army, although it has been outdoors only ten days, has shown itself to be a smooth-working aggregation. The New York Giants gained a 6 to 1 decision over them, while the powerful University of Pennsylvania nine secured only a 4 to 1 verdict. In the latter contest, Stribling, who is slated to twirl this afternoon, pitched the first five innings and yielded but one run. In the event that Stribling falters, Beauchamp will be called to the box for mound duty. Zimmerman and Humber, Cadet gardeners, are the most dangerous of the visiting batters...
...contest has already received enough publicity so that Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are sending their news cameramen to snap the listeners in action. There was also a possibility late last night that Fox Movie-tone would be on hand to record on a synchronized score the voices of the men and the music, as the phonographs grind...
This afternoon at three o'clock, the man who invented the sour kraut eating and balogna slicing contest will find himself no longer a record holder. At that hour the most recent marathon of them all, the youngest offspring of a race long the victim of the inbreeding of defectives will commence within earshot of the Square. At present no steps to avert the holding of the Music Box endurance run are reported to have been taken by the board of health, but that may well be explained on the ground that the community physicians are interested merely...
...feature of the contest which will recommend itself at once to any group of undergraduates is the sturdy atmosphere of rugged amateurism. Absolutely no mention of financial award to the winner has been mentioned in the official announcements and one may as well assume that the participants will engage merely out of love for free competition and the clean hard joy of listening to Helen Kane. Captious persons may always point to the promoters of such schemes as the real profiteers, but it is to be hoped that no such stigma should be attached to a firm which has done...