Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will journey to New England with ten consecutive victories behind it. Yesterday afternoon, however, the aggregation from Pennsylvania, though outhitting their opponents 13 to 7, suffered its initial setback of the year by a 7 to 6 score at the hands of the Tufts batters after ten innings of play...
...open air, under a dome of boughs. Top price: $2.50. Life membership in the Society (entitling to 20% price reduction): $25. These frolics al fresco are counted on to stimulate theatre-unconscious St. Louisans so that next winter a program of more serious dramatics may be given with profit. Plays of John Galsworthy and Frederick Lonsdale have been considered for presentation in a renovated downtown theatre. A $1,000 prize awaits the first St. Louisan who writes a producible play. The Theatre Society was conceived by an Englishman named Peter Greig, Cambridge graduate, onetime actor with Sir Herbert Tree...
Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc- superb silent study of a saint's trial and death. The Divine Lady-Admiral Nelson ashore. Alibi-skillful, authentic crook-play with dialog. The Letter- Maugham melodrama with Jeanne Eagels and good synchronization. Madame X- marks a spot where old-fashioned melodrama becomes good entertainment. (B) The Broadway Melody (records everywhere); The Wild Party ($30,500 Granada, San Francisco); Weary River ($26.300, Strand, Brooklyn); The Barker ($25,000, Loew's State, Los Angeles...
...Nugent '29 singled and went to third on a passed ball, whence he scored the first run of the game on the drive of E.H. McGrath '31. J. A. Prior '29 reached first when Becker fumbled his grounder, the Crimson short stop reaching third on the play. At this juncture, the two baserunners worked a double steal, scoring a second run. Prior counted a moment later on a wild pitch...
...feature match of the morning's play was that between McCarthy of Georgetown and Phillips Finlay '31. On the 17 hole they were even up, but Finlay slumped on the 18 to lose 1 up. Several of the other matches were close, but the play of the number one men attracted the most attention...