Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having but little time left in which to get his team in shape for the opening game with Boston University on April 5, Coach Mitchell, baseball mentor, gave his squad a long workout yesterday, having two teams play a six inning practice game besides taking a regular workout. The Freshman squad also divided up and played a five inning match...
...University game, team B, which was defeated last week by team A, turned the tables on their rivals and won yesterday's abbreviated game, 6 to 3. Despite the cool weather Coach Mitchell let his pitchers go the full route, both W. K. Page '31 and E. A. Colpak '29 pitching the entire six innings...
...Freshman game team B also trounced team A, here by a score of 6 to 2. Team B did not score, however, until Charles Devens '32 had retired from the pitching mound. While Devens was in the box he struck out five of the six men who faced him. Phineas Tobe '32, his opposing pitcher, except for the first two innings, kept things well under control. Tobe later on also figured heavily in his team's scoring when he cracked out a home run to deep right...
...negro has no deity, but, in its place, a host of superstitions. These assume every possible form and apply to every thing. For instance, the wife of the chief is supposed to spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from a snake bite if the medicine man pretends to take a handful of ants from his mouth...
What happened to the Crimson, so free from "The stress and competition of the business world"? On October 23, Time, in an editorial, commented unfavorably on the North Carolina Game, and next day the Crimson rushed to the defense with a lead editorial entitled, "The Sneer and the Yellow Sheet." On February 8, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, writing for the Saturday Evening Post, made merry at Harvard's expense, and once more the Crimson responded nobly. Where was the Crimson on March 1; on that day, the New York World under the title, "More Sacco-Vanzetti Evidence", printed grave charges...