Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peanuts here!" cried one of the boys, and the seller scurried over. "Three bags please," he demanded leaning over and handing me a dollar. I was in the middle of this transaction when I hear a roar and suddenly everyone was standing. When I struggled up most of the players and the crowd were gazing wistfully over the left field fence, and a player was rounding second base. A pall had settled over the crowd, clearly meaning a homerun by the visitors. Everyone sat down...
...Crimson got through these first five matches during spring vacation without the services of first doubles and third singles man Alex Haegler, who will be back in action this afternoon. Missing today, however will be Don Bossart, the number six singles player...
DeMar predicted last night, however, that Popell will probably beat him-- "unless the football player's weight is too much...
...general, the Crimson coach was pleased with his squad's spirit and progress. He wished that his number three single man and top doubles player, Alex Haegler, had been able to make the trip, for Barnaby felt that the junior might possibly have made the difference against the Middies...
This kind of fare is varied with pure farce. In "The Woman in the Case," a double-bass player and an aristocratic beauty get acquainted after both have gone swimming and have had their clothes stolen. Chekhov's Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise...