Word: player
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday's light workout, which consisted of the usual blackboard lecture and easy kicking, group work, and signal rehearsal, was followed yesterday by a heavier drill, brushing up weak points shown by Saturday's game. Individual practice was stressed, each player receiving special attention. The kicking of Murrel, and the dropkicking of Cagle and O'Keefe featured the practice...
...played by any number of persons, though six is the ideal set. One player, the Banker, starts out with little tickets representing $5000 in bank notes...
...stands for $500 in gold which the banker is supposed to have in his bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets...
Christy Mathewsoris ghost was one Joe O'Neill, Manhattan newsman. Player Mathewson was not in the habit of reading his "writings" as written by Mr. O'Neill, even after they appeared in print. "He never could understand why Snodgrass snarled at him in the dugout one day," Mr. Broun relates. "He was not aware that in his current essay he had taken the outfielder to task for the manner in which he played a long...
...Reference to Briton Hadden, Founder & Editor of TIME, who died aged 31 (TIME, March 11). Shortly before his fatal illness, Editor Hadden had been accepted as a better-than-average risk by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. A keen baseball player, he exercised summer and winter. His physicians declared his death to be due to septicaemia (resulting evidently from the scratch of a cat), which might have overcome the most perfect physical specimen...