Word: hancock
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Indoor baseball, according to legend, was invented by George Hancock who, one rainy afternoon at the old Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, started a game, using a broomstick for a bat, a boxing glove for a ball. That was in 1888. In the next 40 years, the game crept tentatively out of doors, developed a loose set of rules and modestly acquired a new name: "softball." Suddenly, in 1930, it became a U. S. mania...
Joseph Boggs Beale was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, General John Hancock, many another bigwig. Yet elderly Philadelphians last week could remember but one political story connected with him. When James A. Garfield was offered the Republican nomination against Winfield Hancock in 1880, he wrote to his mother asking her advice. The Professor was having a dish of tea at the Garfield home when the letter arrived...
...Burnham, J. J. Cabitor, J. L. Calvocoressi, S. Cobb, E. B. Cochran, A. H. Corbett, G. F. Cronkhite, R. J. Cumming, N. DeVore, A. C. Drinkwater, F. C. Eaton, K. A. Ehrman, D. Emerson, D. Eriskson, C. W. Foy, R. H. Gannon, H. S. Geodhue, N. Goodwin, W. W. Hancock, F. W. Hatfield, M. L. Hayward, J. Horowitz, J. C. Hunsaker, J. P. Hunsaker, C. G. Hutter, James H. Jackson, M. D. Jacobson, M. V. Jennings, T. Kaplan, W. S. Kemp, Fred Keppel, Francis Keppel, I. Kline, E. T. Ladd, M. E. Lasker, R. C. Maclaurin, L. A. McGowan...
...week-end to the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Hancock, Md., the President took his party's sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...
Taking six passengers from Washington to Detroit in a trimotored Ford of Central Airlines, he got as far as Hancock, Md. when the left outboard motor exploded, tore loose from its moorings, crashed through the landing gear and plunged earthward. The other two motors sputtered, the plane vibrated heavily, all lights went out. Pilot Carmichael stuck a flashlight out the window, calmly took stock of the situation...