Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national convention of the American Legion, a motion to participate in the fight with the Disabled American Veterans of the World War and the Veterans of Foreign Wars was tabled without the rank and file having an opportunity to vote on it. But the bass drum player who got on the D. A. V. and V. F. W. bandwagon late, is credited by you as having made possible a larger loan on the Government promissory notes held by all veterans...
...mark with his heel at the spot where he made the catch. A "goal" is obtained by kicking the ball over the opponents' cross bar, from the field-of-play by any kick or drop kick except a kick-off or drop-out, without touching the ground or any player of either side. A "drop-kick" is a drop kick taken by the defending side after a touch-down or after the ball has been in touch-in-goal or has touched or crossed the dead ball line. A "free-kick" is a kick allowed for a fair-catch...
Boss Curry. The present leader of Tammany Hall (and hence New York City's Boss) is 57-year-old, blue-eyed, thin-thatched little John Francis Curry. He is a shrewd pinochle-player, but by no means the most potent leader the Wigwam ever had. He is a lifelong resident of the "San Juan Hill Section" (middle West Side). His election to Tammany's leadership in 1929 was hotly contested by the East Side, whence came Alfred dEmanuel Smith. Like most New York bosses, Mr. Curry is of Irish descent and distinguished himself by early physical prowess, in his case...
...France: The first soccer game played against a German team since the War; at Colombes Stadium, Paris, when a German player inadvertently kicked into his own net the only goal of the day. C. Alike, untouted racehorse owned by Richard K. Mellon (nephew): by five lengths, a four-mile steeplechase at Hurst Park, England, from an impressive field of other entries in next week's Grand National at Aintree...
Claim objectors: 1) No referee can see what happens under water; strange and harmful ways are used to make a man let go of the ball. 2) Referees have not enforced the rule that no player may be ducked until he is within four feet of the ball; general and immediate ducking for everyone in the game is a tradition. 3) Many players sustain injuries every year...