Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward the end of February, big-league ball players arrive at training camp towns in Texas and Florida, greet each other as if they had met the day before, settle themselves for after-dinner card games. Old ball players play black jack, hearts, pinochle; younger ones play contract bridge. In the morning, they all play golf. In the afternoon, scrutinized by a few urchins too young to caddy and a few townsfolk too old to pitch horseshoes, they hit fungoes, chase flies, trap grounders, play pepper games (players stand in a small circle, toss baseballs quickly back and forth). After...
London was still being congratulated on having drawn the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Race Horse Grakle, winner of the Grand National (TIME, April 6). Scala's cousin Mateo Constantino and one Antonio Apicella, London hairdressers, produced a written contract and brought suit for two-thirds of Scala's prize of $1,772,720. An Irish judge granted an injunction tying up the money pending a hearing in Dublin High Court this week...
...knocking out dusky Six-Finger Eddie Clark last week, he got $40. Critics agreed, after watching his ring tactics (more awkward than ever) and his wild left hook (no longer dangerous), that he was unlikely to come far back. Still, they wrote about him. And he got a contract to fight again, this time...
...Federal law weighs more heavily or constantly on the mind of corporate business than the Act of July 2, 1890 which bluntly begins: Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. This law is known as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act because its chief sponsor was John Sherman, Ohio's Republican Senator (1861-77, 1881-97), younger brother of General William Tecumseh ("War is Hell") Sherman...
...minor leaguers, but could trounce many a U. S. college team. U. S. baseball missionaries are more welcome in Japan than any other kind. One of the most famed of these, a onetime big-leaguer named Herbert Hunter, announced last week that he had accepted a three-year contract as adviser to the new league...