Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...description given by District Attorney Stuart Culbertson of Meadville, Pa., of the pitch at which he found the convention of the Pennsylvania State Sheriffs' Association, in a hotel at Conneaut Lake...
Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine made the error several years ago of seeming friendly to the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan is now dead in Maine, as elsewhere, but the smudge of pitch lasts long. Governor Brewster tried to oust U. S. Senator Frederick Hale in Maine's Republican primary last week. He reminded the voters that Senator Hale voted to seat U. S. Senators-suspect Vare and Smith. But the Hale men reminded the voters of Governor Brewster's onetime Klannishness. Senator Hale was renominated by a margin of some 30,000 votes...
...Englishmen, were out of it, far down the list; MacFarlane was barely in the running. Maurice McCarthy, young amateur, paired with Hagen, was taking eights and tens; Chick Evans, once champion, scored a 90. Al Watrous, wild as a hawk, hit a spectator in the stomach with a pitch shot; Sarazen went to pieces; a man named Leach had come up to stand second to Jones and Walter Hagen after a first round of 40 played the last nine in 36 in the rain...
...played par golf until at the seventeenth green he saw the crowd billowing over the turf to meet him and escort him back the new champion. With ten thousand people milling around him he sliced his teeshot into some heavy loam behind a tree, caught the rough with his pitch, put his third over the green, took a six. On the eighteenth he had another...
...Burns, Chase. Double plays Chase to Prior, Phillips to Kennedy to Smith. Hits--off Smith, 8 in 4 innings off Bowker 3 in 4 innings, off Kennedy 1 in 1 inning. Bases on balls--off Cutts 1 off Bowker 1. Struck out--by Cutts 3, by Smith 1. Wild pitch Cutts 2. Bowker Hit by pitched ball by Cutts (Ellis) by Smith (Whitney). Passed balls Lord 2. Dorenbaum 1. Losing pitcher Smith Left of base Harvard 7. Tufts 7. Umpires--O'Neil and Stafford. Time...