Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will as usual be on the mound for the jester nine. It will be the diminutive southpaw's twenty-eighth attempt to turn back the board of Plympton Street bingles, and it will be his twenty-eighth failure. Despite the doomed position of his mates, the twirley was in good spirits last night, and it is thought that the little optimist actually hopes to hold his opponents total down to 21 or even 20 runs...
Conditions were excellent with scarcely any wind, and as a result several good scores for the difficult course were turned in. Phillips Finlay '31, playing number one man on the Harvard team, was low man for the day, getting a 73 in his match with Chesley whom he defeated...
...scholarships, established in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, of which Edward S. Harkness is president, are similar to the Rhodes Scholarships and were inaugurated in order to give British students an opportunity to study in America and to foster good will between the United States and Great Britain...
...resourceful carrier explained that he was called on to do this sort of thing pretty often and knew just what was needed. Filled with a renewed scorn for the intelligence of "fool tourists", he clattered on his way, while the Vagabond said good-by to the trout widow and likewise resumed his, resolved to buy at least a dozen tickets the next time the solicitor for the postman's ball comes around...
Just how much the race will determine is hard to tell. Swaim is well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...