Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winter in the history of professional baseball has seen such change in personnel of major league rosters. Aside from the Cobb and Speaker hegiras: Rogers Hornsby, premier infielder and slugger, has left the St. Louis Cardinals to enter the costume of the New York Giants; Frankie Frisch, Fordham flash, will be a Cardinal instead of a Giant; veteran Eddie Collins will again strive for the Philadelphia Athletics after a lengthy interlude with the Chicago White Sox; Zack Wheat, another oldster, has joined the Athletics after years of service with the Brooklyn Robins; Eddie Roush has been traded by Cincinnati...
...Laval attack now speeded up considerably. Two and a half minutes after the opening, Fortier's team almost dribbled past Morrill and a moment later Tudor flicked the puck past Laire on a pass from Zarakov. Several minutes after this, another shot almost passed Morrill. A flash of leather knee pads, a resounding thud, and he had averted another potential counter...
...Miller '27, H. W. Burns '28, and C. G. T. Lundell '27 will face a formidable field in the dashes. They will wear the spikes against McAllister, Murchison, often hailed as America's premier speedster, Hussey, the Boston College flash. Scholz, Charles, Russel, and Morrill. Miller and Burns faced the starter last year with an equally strong list of American and European contenders. In the 40-yard event Miller crossed the line second to Murchison with Houben, the German star, and Hussey trailing...
...tenths seconds, one-tenth of a second from the world mark. Murchison's leg injury, which he received at the close of last year's season, may be a handicap to the champion runner this year, and the Crimson sprinter, who has been showing more speed than ever, may flash his heels in front of the field tonight. In the 40 yard dash at the Knights of Columbus games, Miller was clocked at four and three-fifths seconds, one-fifth of a second from the world's record...
...That is a fisher," he pointed out to his audience of one, "and is the greatest curiosity in the show. I can say that not one man in a million has seen one. It is first cousin to the mink, of the wolverine family, and vanishes like a flash when approached. Men who have lived in the bush for years have never seen...