Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Combining, to a certain extent, the advantages of the two styles was Beekman Pool '32, who is generally considered to be the greatest squash player to come out of Harvard. Pool, the younger, combined his straight, hard-hitting front wall game with corner and drop shots to good advantage. Much like Pool in his style of play is the present intercollegiate champion, E. Rotan Sargent '36, to whom Cowles looks as the next National Champion. Sargent ran the present National champ. Neil Sullivan, to five games and is considered the most serious contender for his crown...
...fielding averages, compiled in elaborate, accurate and unintelligible code, form a regular feature of every U. S. sport page. To insure maximum attention, annual statistics are not released until the football season closes. By scanning charts, baseball addicts last week were able to find out exactly how every player in the National League performed during the summer of 1934. Leading batter was Pittsburgh's Paul Waner: 146 games; 217 hits; .362 average. Leading pitcher was not famed Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, who had equaled a 17-year-old record by winning 30 games...
...newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world; a card index of every major league player for the last 20 years, with a lifetime record of his performances ; every box score kept since 1876. In the summer its eight clerks make a permanent record of every play in every major and most minor league games played in the U. S. In the winter, a staff of three checks...
...months. Since then his Bureau has become a monopoly. His first competitor, George Moreland, long ago sent to prison for cashing bad checks, has since dropped out of sight. In addition to the age, birthday, batting average, professional ability and personal peculiarities of almost every big league baseball player, Al Munro Elias makes a habit of remembering his friends' middle names. He considers the "official" statistics released last week better than most, because they were identical with his own statistics, published just after the World Series...
...game is bagatelle (also known as sans égal, Mississippi, cockamaroo, contact with variations. The player drops a coin in the slot which releases a plunger. With the plunger he drives a ball down crooked alleyways of pins until it scores by dropping into one of many holes in the board. For his total score he receives a certain number of coupons exchangeable for merchandise. The average player, of course, spends much more accumulating sufficient points to win, say, a $25 radio than he would if he went out and bought the instrument for cash. Smart players...