Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following special article was written by Joe Forecast, who predicted with such success reports of football encounters in the columns of the Crimson last year. At the requests of hundreds of fans, he has consented to resume his old post at a fabulous honorarium, and has signed a contract with the Crimson to begin his duties at once...
...eligibility of the two Geneva athletes who transferred from the University of Pittsburg this year, was questioned recently by the Cornell authorities. According to the terms of the contract Harvard was scheduled to play Geneva under the rules of the visitors and no protest was made by the University officials, Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 wrote to Geneva merely to clear the question and yesterday received the answer in the form of a definite statement to the effect that neither of the two men will participate against the University eleven. Johnson has already left Geneva and has returned...
...upon that old farce, A Pair of Sixes, in which a poker hand assigns one man to the position of servant, the other to the position of master, for a whole year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help of droll comedienne Luella Gear, acrobatic Edwin Michaels, super-dynamic Gaile Beverly, beauteous Mary Lawlor, and a host of others. Willy Pogany made the settings...
Thirteenth Contract The longest contract airmail route yet (1,099 mi.) was about to start operating, between Seattle and Los Angeles. Trains take 63 hr. up or down this stretch of coast. Eight planes were in readiness to fly it, four each way daily, in 13¼ hr. Night flying was planned for the beginning of each trip, the planes setting out at 3:45 a. m., arriving at 5 p. m. with five stops* on the way: Portland, Medford, San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield. When begun, it was to make the 13th operating contract route that has been instituted...
Endlessly the controversy has raged as to William Harrison Dempsey's present boxing status. Is he on contract with Patrick Mullins, manager of black Harry Wills, to meet that fighter in Chicago? If not, is he at liberty to fight Eugene Tunney in New York in September? Last week the New York State Athletic Commission restored Dempsey to good standing. Promoter "Tex" Rickard ordered a printer to begin making tickets for the fight (top price $27.50). Patrick Mullins, meeting Fighter Dempsey, called him a liar, a cheat, offered to fight him. A humorous spectator, as he helped to pinion...