Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...innings took the measure of the Cercle Francais on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon to the tune of 14 to 13. The final score is more or less problematic because the last of the three umpires, about to announce the score, slipped on wet ground and broke his word. The knock-out drops of Francke and Pabst were too much for the Frenchmen who passed out repeatedly after three feeble whiffs at the pellet. The afternoon was voted a most successful one by all present...
Readers of that jargon of josh called the Lampoon are herewith notified that the hockey team representing the said slush-sheet will receive its just desert--the knock-out punch,--at the hands of the almighty CRIMSON hockey team (applause!) on the Stadium rink this afternoon at 4.15 o'clock. Despite the funny face now wet with tears, despite the resounding cracks between the bony knees of the irate Ibis, the invincible CRIMSON aggregation will cause the frozen H2O on the Stadium to gleam with the brilliance of their repeated shots into the cage so futilely guarded by the erstwhile...
...times one or the other of them took the puck down the rink, but being alone was easily stopped by the opposing defence. At least two good opportunities to score were lost from the mere fact that after the shot was blocked there was no one on hand to knock in the rebound...
...year ago, and there was not the same coLcerted action among the players. Huntington was as fast as ever and extremely valuable in following back, but Duncan seemed neither as fast nor as clever as last year, when his chief value to the team was his ability to knock in rebounds. One reason for this is that this year there is no forward who can get all the way up the rink for a shot. The position of left wing was filled by Sortwell almost from the very start and, although he was not used to that part...