Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dempsey the fearless, who has faced Carpentier, Firpo the "Argentine bull", and Tom Gibbons, the hardest hitter in the ring, without a qualm, lost his nerve. "Professor Dempsey? That's a hot one," he is reported to have said as he dismissed the crestfallen pedagogue...
Both prize winners played in the field last year, Todd playing in left field and Gordon in right. Todd not only was the most consistent hitter on the team but was also one of the hardest, hitting a great many home runs during the season...
...times. I forgot to duck on only two occasions in all that time. I admit I didn't know what hit me or how I fell. . . . Let me tell you that Sam Langford hit harder by accident than most heavyweights hit on purpose. There never lived a hitter like Langford." (Wills' interlocutor asked if Langford could have whipped Champion Dempsey.) "Ho, Ho! Dempsey wouldn't have lasted any time. Made to order for Sam-poor Sam. Ah, gee, what a great fighter Now about . . . Firpo. I'll surely beat him. . . . Just let that bird come...
...critics were seen busy analysing the play of Helen Wills and comparing her to the Frenchwoman, Suzanne Lenglen. The general opinion was that Helen was not as fast as Suzanne but that she was a harder hitter. The American girl was also thought foolish to play in such an important tournament before familiarizing herself with the slower British balls and other strange conditions by playing in several minor tournaments...
Rokuro is a hard hitter and when he hits hard the ball goes and goes and goes. With a mashie he is not so good, but at putting?well, there is certainly something celestial in the way he coaxes the white spheroids into the holes...