Word: gutted
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...Harvard nearer New York or Philadelphia. Some few people in Boston are probably resisting the prohibition amendment; perhaps they laid in their supplies while the laying was good. But doesn't President Eliot realize that most people, from the poor man who can only afford a "hipper" of Rot Gut to the inventive genius who shoots his champagne across the border in a torpedo, are co-offenders with the "good society." Once more the umpire has rendered his decision, but with his back turned toward the play...
...part of the racket, aids very materially in returning balls which are volleyed directly at a player. In fact, the manufacturers have prepared a racket suitable to all good players, and one that has a use for every inch of its space. it is fairly well made, but the gut seems quite thin and as if it would easily be broken. There are also rackets very much curved to make them of use for balls high and to one side, while the straight rackets are for those who are not good at judging the position of the ball, and besides...
...university cricket-ground. The great "bumping" races that occur at this time are thus described by the same writer: Though the pleasure is largely dependent on genial sky and favorable breezes there is something very alluring to strangers in the series of struggles to be witnessed in the Gut, the Plough and the Long Reach, from the vantage-ground of Grassy Corner or Ditton Meadows. Long lines of eager young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions...