Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because pool is a name associated with back-alleys and furtive gambling, pool champions, when they play each other, have a more elaborate designation for their game-pocket billiards. For the first time in many years there were more than eight players in the world's championship pocket billiards tournament which ended in Philadelphia last week. Several of the twelve were ex-champions but the pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office...
...vote on the ukulele's status. To plead her case she will present affidavits from famed musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...
...Crimson Independents, a Graduate Schools quintet, 28 to 17, from Middlebury, 41 to 19, from Providence, 41 to 28, and from St. Michael's, 52 to 22. The leader of the Dartmouth quintet is McCall, star backfield man of this year's football eleven. He is an all-around player, filling either the guard or forward positions...
...Columbia baseball player was mentioned as playing in a professional league with students from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. "No student here is permitted to play baseball on any team when any member of that team receives pay for his play," Bingham said...
...amateur rules which bar offside passing despite the fact that Harvard will play most of its games this season under the professional code. The game is not official from the Harvard standpoint but has been arranged so that the University Club, Boston's Olympic aspirants, can try out various player combinations and improve its teamwork...