Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...softball game between two inmate teams at Massachusetts' Plymouth county jail, the ball was belted over the wall. Unwilling to hold up the game, good-natured Guard Robert Woodward opened the gate so that a trusty could retrieve it, whereupon four prisoners knocked him down and escaped...
...Lost Pct. Dartmouth 5 0 1.000 Princeton 5 3 .625 Cornell 3 2 .600 Penn 3 2 .600 Harvard 3 3 .500 Brown 3 4 .429 Yale 2 3 .400 Columbia 3 5 .375 Navy 2 4 .333 Army 1 4 .200 (Game today: Army at Brown...
Andover beat Tilton, 5 to 2, in its last outing on Wednesday. The freshmen recovered from a two-game losing streak the same day, pounding Leicester...
...Cadets have been sporadically dangerous this year, winning only one EIBL game in five starts. They often outhit their opponents but their fielding has been sub-par. Every once in a while, however, they will explode for a large number of runs. They beat Yale, 13 to 4, and scored nine against Dartmouth and 10, 13, and 11 in three other games. Coach Paul Amen's soldiers forced Cornell and the Brooklyn Dodgers into extra innings before dropping one-run decisions...
...producers have shifted the emphasis of Ring Lardner's famous short story so that it is not Midge Kelly, but the "boxing game," that comes out the villain. In the original, Kelly knocks down his crippled brother and his mother, and throws a fight in the first two pages. None of this lovable character delineation appears in the movie; instead Midge becomes a man who just can't lose--an animal who refuses to fall down, either by agreement or because of terrific punishment. He wins his last fight after being beaten silly because he gets sore in the fifteenth...