Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball is unjust and unfair because it widens the gap between the expert and the dub. It may prevent a great player from turning your toughest course in a casual 66, but it will prevent many thousands of others-who make the game, make the galleries and love the fun-from turning in that joyous 89 that means so much...
...clean record for 1.000. McGrath, however, who has been handling the second and first base positions is fielding for .905. Last year McGrath was playing 1.000 ball but batting only .310 after nine games had been played. Later he took the Wendell bat as the team's most valuable player. Sheldon's average is .970, Ticknor's .955, and Wood...
Graduate of W. & J. (1892), a football player in his time, 64-year-old Dr. Baker is a great-great-grandson of Dr. Thaddeus Dod, first principal of Washington Academy which became Washington & Jefferson College in 1865. In his ten-year regime he was liked by most of his trustees and by many a townsman. But his students found his temper uneven, his educational and religious principles too conservative. And though sympathetic, he was known to be pliable, easily imposed upon...
...Richards ran in to volley Tilden slammed drives at his feet, forced him into errors and defensive half volleys, sent him racing back to the baseline for perfect lobs. Richards was beginning to tire. He stopped running up, hung on the baseline as Tilden wanted him to. For no player except Henri Cochet is able to beat Tilden in the backcourt, and this evening Tilden was playing as he did from 1920 to 1926, when no one in the world had a chance against him. His drives, with the terrific leverage of the long, springlike body behind them, were hitting...
Died. Joseph Gilbert Thorp, 78, Boston lawyer, onetime president of the Massachusetts Prison Association, oldtime (1870) Harvard baseball player, amateur golfer, husband of Annie Allegra Longfellow, 74, who is the last surviving daughter of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* in Cambridge, Mass...