Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathing exercises by which yogins claim to achieve a state of mental sublimity, Dr. Behanan says they merely dulled his wits, possibly due to a lack of oxygen in the brain. Breathing normally, handsome Dr. Behanan, 35, is famed at Yale as a first-class poker player, an ambidextrous ping-pongist hard to beat...
...from the point of view of the athletes who participate in the various sports in the college the distinction between major and minor seems to mean very little. A soccer player, for instance, takes his training as seriously, is just as worked up over the thought of getting into the Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success...
Representative Cannon's indignation about organized baseball dates from 1920 when he was attorney for the Chicago White Sox players in baseball's most famed scandal. A onetime professional baseballer himself, he usually pitches in the annual House v. Congressional Press Gallery game. Basis of his complaint to Attorney General Cummings was that "if a player's contract expires and the . . . club owner submits a new contract... the player must either sign the contract... or he is forever barred from playing organized baseball. . . ." Since the existence of organized baseball depends on the existence of some form...
...Herbert Porter, young Randolph Hearst delighted Atlanta youngbloods by leasing for living quarters half a floor in the swank northside Biltmore Apartments, buying a 12-cylinder Packard, an English Austin, a twin-engined cabin monoplane, learning to fly. Six feet tall, broad-shouldered, small-hipped, expert squash and softball player, fond of dancing, blond, brown-eyed Randolph Hearst reports for work at 7:30 a. m., eats democratically and heartily with his fellow workers at a nearby lunchroom, is free to play after...
...Hill Top Engine Company of Pocantico Hills, N. Y. elected John Davison Rockefeller Jr, a volunteer fireman, entitling him to use the firehouse player piano, ride on the firetruck. No vamp, Mr. Rockefeller recently underwrote his town's new fire house...