Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor was unable to appear. In desperation...
Oldest, strangest and most patrician indoor court game is court-tennis, played with curved rackets shaped like little shovels, and hard, heavy balls. During the 16th Century, the game was so popular that people said there were more court-tennis players in Paris than ale-drinkers in England. One Englishman, Henry VIII, liked it so much that he had a court, with benches in the dedans (netted opening in the wall) for his courtiers, built into Hampton Court. Court-tennis has preserved its prestige at the price of its popularity. Henry VIII's benches are still in existence...
...manufacturers of stereotyping mats; of an abscess caused by a peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. ¶Died. Two Guns White Calf, 62, son of the last Blackfoot chieftain; after a brief illness; in Glacier Park, Mont, (see p. 10). ¶Died. Fielder Allison Jones, 62, baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught...
When the U. S. indoor tennis championships started last week in Manhattan, several players looked good enough to win. First to fall was Jean Borotra of France. Declared the four-time winner: "I am getting too old. It looks like ping-pong next for me." George Lott, who limped with a sore toe, and Andre Merlin, French indoor titlist, went out in the quarterfinals. Frank Shields, No. 1 ranking U. S. player, and Sidney Wood, No. 6, were dropped in the semifinals...
...sterling silver bowl has been received as an anonymous gift, to be awarded to the player who each year excels in forward passing. The Roger W. Cutler Trophy, which will be given to the best punter, has been donated by Roger W. Cutler '11. The third trophy which is to be known as the S. V. R. Crosby Trophy, and which will be given to the player who has done the best job in drop-kicking, has been donated by Stephen V. R. Crosby...