Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, made his first start of the year yesterday and celebrated the event by making the first goal of the game, a goal that did not come before the third period and was a rather muddy one. Murphy had to kick the ball out of the arms of the Jumbo goalie in order to make the score...
...Keyes down the first base line, and a brace of walks to Tom Healey and Art Johns. The last one forced Fulton home with a run. In the eighth Lupe Lupien poled a long drive out to center field and went all the way around the bases when the Jumbo outer gardeners misjudged the drive slightly. That poke wrote a finis to Harvard scoring for the afternoon...
...words of Coach Skip Stahley, "they all played well." Skip was particularly pleased by the showing of the defense, who again and again broke up the Jumbo drives, giving them very few shots at the Crimson goal...
Bill Daughaday is a strong favorite to defeat his Jumbo opponent, Al Bennett, in the 165 bracket. Tudor Gardiner meets an unknown quantity, Charles Ciaffone, in the 175 pound bout...
...other guests jumbo type has been used, and for presbyopic Impresario Daniel Frohman the script was hand-printed, in letters several inches tall. More difficult was color-blind Manhattanite Robert Reuschle, who wanted his lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep...