Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually "Dick" Vidmer, Herald Tribune sportswriter, had reported how 34 U. S. sportsmen* signed a statement: "Moral Re-Armament is a battle for peace where sportsmen must take the lead. . . . Sportsmen morally rearmed can unite the world." They signed at the urging of handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic...
Sparkling on the bases, the Crimson runners turned in a total of eight stolen bags with Hoye, Dick Grondahl, and Lupien pilfering two apiece...
...Crimson last no time in getting scores a few runs, tallying in the first three innings. In the first Art Johns walked, stole second, and scored on Dick Grondahl's roller to the second baseman. In the second the Crimson used a hit by Keyes, a pass to Gurtias and a had throw by Husky shortstop Little to manufacture another score...
...boat is Dick Ninde, the hardest and most consistent worker on the crew. Last year Dick was an oarsman on the Jayvee crew, but it is far from a natural occurrence that he should be on the crew again this year. There has been at least one man on last year's Jayvee crew who found the competition much too touch to keep going this year...
...backbone of the team is its formidable aggregation of Juniors, among whom Norm Blotner, Ed Childs, Jim Doughty, Phil Downes, Ben Ferris, Gordon Halstead, Dick Lewis, Ben Wilcox, and Jess Willard have been valuable. Willard and Doughty have been serving quite consistently as counters, while Lewis, Ferris, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Wilcox have seen action as substitutes and may well be the skeleton of next year's ton. Of the Seniors, Ralph Livingston and Hammond have been the mainstays...