Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world championship won by the New York Giants from the Washington Senators last week was their first since 1922 when they beat the New York Yankees. Attendance was smallest in 15 years. From a total gate of $679,000 the players on both teams got $284,000, divided 60-40 between winners and losers. Each Giant player collected about $4,600, each Senator about $3.400. Manager William ("Memphis Bill") Terry got a five-year contract as player-manager at a rumored salary of $40,000 a year...
...limited to 300 and an average of only seven students under each professor, Haverford honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college men by a selective process...
...football team. For a while it looked as if he were on the winning side but the wind was taken out of his sails in exactly five minutes. And the five minutes that turned the trick were the first five minutes of the Bates game. Ironically enough the player directly responsible for his demise was Danny Wells, the very one with whom the article dealt most vehemently...
...offense of clipping (falling upon the calves of a player not carrying the ball) now includes running or diving into the back of such a player. Penalty...
...team is named for the Long Island estate of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who has been trying for five years to win the National Open Championship. To help him at Meadow Brook last week, he had Cecil Calvert Smith, the hard-riding Texas cowboy who was called the greatest player of the year after the West beat the East at Chicago last August (TIME, Aug. 21, 28); and two of the Balding brothers, Gerald and Ivor, who come from England to the U. S. for every polo season...