Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when young), a large volume of advertising. Investigation revealed that Golfer Jones had not employed a ghost, that he had originally sold the articles to Bell Features Syndicate, having patiently scrawled out his copy over weekends, to meet the regulation of the U. S. Golf Association which forbids a player to sell his name as the author of a piece he has not himself written. Sportwriter Grantland Rice, old friend of Jones, believing that the publication was to be a real book in board covers, wrote an introduction as a favor...
...match was hotly exciting. For five sets, less one point?a point that was never played?Berkeley Bell, agile, 125-lb. player from Dallas, Tex. had run after the hard forehand drives of Francis Townsend Hunter, longtime Davis cupman, No. 2 ranking player. Hunter lost the first set, but took the next two. Bell was coming up to the net in the fourth?hazardous tactics against anyone so accurate as Hunter?and even in the backcourt his legs pumped so fast that he made gets that seemed impossible. For such short legs, the pace was hard, and while Hunter...
When John Van Ryn beat Hunter next day, some spectators said Hunter deserved it after taking the Bell match that way?who ever heard of a decent player claiming a default when his opponent had hurt himself? Others supported Hunter's own claim?that he had been playing for Bell's legs, that Bell could only beat these tactics by taking a rest. Beside, they said, how could Bell expect lenience after what he did to that sitter...
...also lost to Georgetown, and Columbia and was victorious over the Quantico Marines and Catholic University. Since the return home it has not been defeated in a single game defeating Bowdoiu. U. S. S. Southery, Colby and New Hampshire in successive games. CRIMSON NINE BATS .264 AND FIELDS .933 Player a.b. r. h. 2b. 3b. h.r. s.b. s.h. Ave. p.o. a. e. Ave. Carver, 7 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 .429 0 2 0 1.000 Ticknor 39 10 14 3 2 5 1 1 .359 11 2 1 .929 Mays...
When Sportsman Alain Gerbault (swimmer, poloist, tennis player, footballer, war ace) thought of going around the world,* he wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...