Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long rallies with expert playing on both sides. It was only after the hardest battle that Coggeshall, veteran of numerous tournaments, was able to subdue the Freshman, who gave fierce battle throughout, and was even leading two sets to one, at one point in the match. In the fourth set, however, Coggeshall rallied, and took the set at love. In the final set, the score was again 6-4, the victor finally overcoming his less experienced opponent...
During the afternoon session the coaches gave most of their attention to the third and fourth teams. The Grays, under the direction of Swede Youngstrom, played the part of the Harvard eleven, running through the various Crimson plays and passes with some degree of success. The third and fourth teams were on the defensive during most of the scrimmage, but late in the afternoon Bart McDonough, Bill Morton and Bill McCall took turns at directing the Green team, running through plays which the coaches considered rough in spots and needing some improvement. The practice would have continued until after dark...
Second Game. Outfielder Jimmy Foxx, the youngest Philadelphian, knocked a wild pitch for a home-run, his second of the series, with two friends on base. In the fourth inning the Athletics scored three times more and Manager McCarthy of Chicago took out Malone, one of his best pitchers. With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than...
...Fourth Game. Pitcher Charlie Root had kept the Athletics to three scattered hits and the Cubs were leading 8 to 0 when Left Fielder Simmons of Philadelphia came up to bat in the seventh inning. While a phonograph pushed up against amplifiers played "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" and the crowd screamed as no World Series crowd has screamed for a decade, Simmons hit a home run; Foxx, Miller, Dykes, Boley and Bishop singled. Old left-handed Arthur Nehf, who used to pitch for the Giants, went in for Root. Then Pitcher Blake went...
Lindberghs Over Yucatan. Soaring over Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo (Mexico), British Honduras, and Guatemala, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh and a Fairchild camera last week observed the remains of three Mayan cities and traces of a fourth. Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution, who accompanied them, declared gratefully that they had accomplished more exploratory work in 25 hours of flying than a ground party could have done in five years of plodding...