Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armour was out of it; Boomer and Compston, the Englishmen, were out of it, far down the list; MacFarlane was barely in the running. Maurice McCarthy, young amateur, paired with Hagen, was taking eights and tens; Chick Evans, once champion, scored a 90. Al Watrous, wild as a hawk, hit a spectator in the stomach with a pitch shot; Sarazen went to pieces; a man named Leach had come up to stand second to Jones and Walter Hagen after a first round of 40 played the last nine in 36 in the rain...
Casting about for likely members of the M Club of Cornell University, Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, hit upon the name of his rich classmate, Hayward Kendall, Cleveland coalman, and wrote him a letter. It is easy to become a member of the M Club-simply agree to contribute $1,000 annually to Cornell University. But Classmate Kendall did not want to join; and he said so in a wide open letter to President Livingston Farrand of Cornell. The letter in part...
...faced Molla Mallory, who was once unbeatable. Everything depended on the doubles. Playing with Penelope Anderson, Miss Wills kept looking around nervously to see if she was expected to take balls that dropped in the middle of the court. Unsure at the net, she stayed in the back court, hit her drives hard, but kept putting them out or in the net with the result that she and her partner were beaten, 6-2, 6-1. This is the first time the Englishwomen have won the Wightman Cup since...
...year; so clothing manufacturers have been buying as few bolts of cloth as they dared, and still be able to serve their retailer customers; so woolen and worsted weavers must cut their business close to demand; that leaves much machinery idle and forbids profitable increase of prices. Particularly hard hit in this way have been the three great U. S. woolen goods fabricators-American Woolen Co., Arlington Mills, Botany Consolidated Mills. The newly formed Wool Institute has not so far been able to help...
...base hit--Sullivan. Three base hits Kennedy, Sullivan, Donaghy, Whitney, Stolen bases--Burns, Chase. Double plays Chase to Prior, Phillips to Kennedy to Smith. Hits--off Smith, 8 in 4 innings off Bowker 3 in 4 innings, off Kennedy 1 in 1 inning. Bases on balls--off Cutts 1 off Bowker 1. Struck out--by Cutts 3, by Smith 1. Wild pitch Cutts 2. Bowker Hit by pitched ball by Cutts (Ellis) by Smith (Whitney). Passed balls Lord 2. Dorenbaum 1. Losing pitcher Smith Left of base Harvard 7. Tufts 7. Umpires--O'Neil and Stafford. Time...