Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Urreula, behind the plate, and Conway at short stop, will be the only veterans on the Cushing team Conway not only distinguished himself against the 1926 nine last year, but against Suffield Academy, last Saturday, he produced a timely bingle in the ninth inning with two out and two men on bases, which converted a seemingly hopeless defeat into a 10 to 9 victory. The Freshman team will have no easy afternoon and it may quite possibly find some very serious opposition...
...dozen or so beautiful trophies, the largest of which is a decorated silver plate, presented by the members of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Athletic Clubs in remembrance of their visit to America in 1901, fill the center section of the case. Another of this group is a tall cup, which Wendell won for performing the remarkable feat of running the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat, long before the advent of the crouching start. Besides these and many medals for winning places in various meets, there are several dozen badges presented to him for officiating at athletic meets...
...competing West Shore road was leased, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern were purchased, an alliance affected with the "Big Four." This gave the Central a through route to Chicago, as well as an entry into Detroit, Toronto, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis. The acquisition of the "Nickel Plate" removed dangerous competition. Subsequently the Central added more mileage by merger or construction. In the richness of territory it traverses and the number of large cities it touches, it is rivalled only by the Pennsylvania...
Princeton N. J., April 9. The Princeton baseball nine downed Swarthmore here today. The score was 8 to 2. Caldwell pitched the whole game for the home team. He allowed only six hits. Dinsmore of Princeton made four hits in an many trips to the plate...
...Angeles, early in the month, Mrs. Albert Sherman Hoyt was hostess at a Dutch luncheon to celebrate the completion of the $100,000 fund for the women's dormitory at the University of Southern California. The price was $200 a plate. Many fine ladies came, some from Pasadena. The visiting orator was President Aurelia Reinhardt, of Mills College, Oakland. She spoke in praise of three benevolent women, deceased-Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Susan Lincoln Mills. Said she: "Mrs. Hearst built the first women's building west of the Mississippi, and the women's building...