Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the CRIMSON array of diamond dusters has suffered from the in roads of graduation, a careful search of nooks and corners of the building has brought to light some material which, if not promising, is at least plastic. The chief gaps to be filled are in the pitcher's box, around the keystone sack, and in left field...
...Every family likes to think that one of it's children will, some day, become a violinist, a poet or a painter. But if a child grows up and thinks himself a genius when he is really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything...
Last year's squad is complete except for the veteran pitcher Willard Howard '28, who is expected to report in a few days. G. E. Donaghy '29 and R. C. Sullivan '28 are both temporarily out with injuries...
...more courtly game of quoits. Perhaps, so far as it concerns the codification of horseshoe pitching as a formal sport, this is true, but it is certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned old men throw horseshoes in the yards of Florida...
Coach Mitchell has allowed these three veterans a week's rest after the strenuous hockey and basketball seasons, which have just been completed, but it is expected that they will report at the beginning of next week.UNIVERSITY PITCHER WHO WILL REPORT NEXT WEEK WILLARD HOWARD...