Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feminine Sports Federation of France: a legal contest with Mme Violette Morris, female hockey player who had brought suit for $4,000 damages because the Federation had taken away her membership for wearing trousers, talking indecently, refusing to reform (TIME, March 10). Said Mme Morris: "I will get a pilot's license. The air is the only place left where a woman can wear pants...
...Round-faced, left-handed John Doeg, No. 3 ranking U. S. tennis player: the Southeastern championship in St. Augustine, beating J. Gilbert Hall in an exciting match on clay courts after Hall had him match-point. A few days later Doeg lost a local tournament finals match to George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago...
...often suggest a theatrical rummage sale; his supporting cast is apt to make up in exuberance what it lacks in finesse. But Mr. Leiber, with energy enough to play Hamlet, Macbeth and Shylock on successive nights, has also gusto enough to concentrate attention on himself, a worthy and gifted player. He sometimes skims his roles but never tortures them...
...game itself is sort of a cross between soccer and football and the players dress in the garb of a soccer player. The ball used is similar to the oval of American football (in fact, that's what they're playing with on Soldiers Field right now). The ball is advanced for the greater part by carrying and passing at the same time, similar to the way it is done in touch football but one is allowed to tackle the runner--although interference is not allowed. The scoring system reminds one of the one that was in vogue in America...
Where his error scores the player victory...