Word: honus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...projects is an accepted tradition of U. S. sport. Harold Grange recently, it is reported, accepted $1,000 to say a certain brand of cigarets was good, although he saved his self-respect by refusing $10,000 which was offered him if he would say he smoked that brand. Honus ("Hans") Wagner, bowlegged shortstop, ran for sheriff in a Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside sheet of the Tampa Morning Tribune, a famed baseball...
Excitement confusing sense impressions, making recognizable the smell of the "Star Spangled Banner" as played on a brass band, the noises of two-for-a-quarter cigars, of D'jer Kiss, of this morning's breakfast, the taste of anticipation. Bowlegged Honus Wagner and spry Tyrus Cobb, survivors of a Pittsburgh-Detroit World Series 16 years ago, pushed together seats through the press section; a white team (Pittsburg), a grey team (Washington), which had been warming up along the edges of a field earnestly green, looked up at a box wherein Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, stood with...
...Honus ("Hans") Wagner, onetime Pittsburgh baseball Titan, has entered politics. Last week, large placards appeared about Pittsburgh bear- ing the words: FOR SHERIFF*−J. HANS WAGNER. There was a picture of Honus in the uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Each spring, Wagner once more dons his uniform, plays "sandlot" ball. If the sheriffalty does not prevent, he is expected to play this year with the "Elks" of the Allegheny County (Pa.) League...