Word: keyser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcolm Aaron Keyser, Jr. '33, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was yesterday elected second assistant manager of the University soccer team...
Officials went home saying they were pleased. For months big league clubs have been considering night baseball- ever since Des Moines played Wichita under floodlights in May. Soon Springfield, Bloomington and Quincy took the idea up, and for a while it added to their attendance. Said Lee Keyser, president of the Des Moines club: "It is glorious and wonderful. It means that baseball in the minor leagues will now live...
Although keenly interested in minor league night games, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, tsar of baseball, realizes that major-league owners are facing a different problem. President Lee Keyser had pitched his floodlights around his field because he could not get large crowds to go to games in the daytime. Some critics believe that while businessmen in minor-league towns cannot leave their work in the afternoon, businessmen in big cities, who can leave, go to ball games even when they ought not to, principally for the fun of being irresponsible...
...game of its home season; at night, on a field lighted by huge projectors from 90-ft. towers; beating Wichita, 13 to 6. Des Moines made four errors, Wichita none. Said Hugrie Nielsen, Des Moines shortstop: "It's easier to hit a curve by electric light." Said Lee Keyser, president of the Des Moines club, who thought up night-baseball to draw the fans who could not get away in the afternoons: "It was splendid . . . glorious...
...team who have successfully battled their way to the finals in the same tournament are A.L. Bronstein '33 in the 125-pound class, P.O. Johnson '33 in the 135-pound class, J.H. Crandon '33 in the 145-pound class, and O.E. Goddard '33 in the 155-pound class. M.A. Keyser '33 was prevented from representing the 165-pound class because of a bad knee...