Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Vanderbilt baseball team came all the way from Tennessee and nicked the delivery of Willard Howard '28 for 11 hits on the Soldiers Field diamond yesterday, it could not win the ball game. Four hits, only two of which counted in the scoring, was the extent of the damage done by the University batsmen to Creson, the visiting hurler, yet they took the laurel crown at the end of the proceedings by a score...
Three of the four Harvard hits were registered in the fourth inning, when four runs crossed the plate. Howard led off with a single and Burns was hit by a pitched ball. Chase dribbled one to the infield and Creson cut off Russell's toss to Brooks, covering second. All the runners were safe, and Zarakov hit to shortstop, who tossed Howard out at home. Lord drove a mighty triple to the outfield's limits, cleaning the sacks, and scoring himself on a sacrifice fly by Chauncey...
...ninth inning rally of the visiting batters drove Howard off the mound and gave R. H. Booth '27 a chance to show his skill. With one out Oliver doubled and took third on a passed ball. Creson walked and when Spears singled, Oliver scored and Creson moved up a base. Jones sacrificed and Owen hit, bringing in Creson and Spears. After McKibbon's single, Howard left, and Booth entered. He threw one ball to Russell, and the first sacker popped to Zarakov, ending the encounter...
...Anti-Saloon League founders, the Rev. Howard Hyde Russell may be isolated as "the Founder." Last week indeed he dedicated a monument commemorating a temperance speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1846. The monument's inscription contains, in large capitals, the name of Abraham Lincoln, in slightly larger capitals the name of Howard Hyde Russell, described as "Founder of the Anti-Saloon League...
...Author. James Weldon Johnson is a 55-year-old product of Jacksonville, Fla. He attended Atlanta, Columbia and Howard Universities, taught school a while, then entered the musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...