Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play golf where I won't have to wear a sweater," was the reason announced by President-Reject Smith for his southern vacation, which began last week. He emphasized the fact that the South contained for him something besides Democratic politics, by declining to visit even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his gubernatorial heir, who was resting, reviewing, retrenching at Warm Springs, Ga. The Smith Special proceeded, not without cheers, to Biloxi, Miss. There the Messrs. Smith, Raskob, Kenny, Riordan, et al., left off their sweaters and played, without further public palaver, golf...
...Detroit, last week, men skated out with sticks and began to play hockey. Likewise, in Montreal, in Pittsburgh, in Ottawa and Toronto. Likewise, in Manhattan, when the smell of horses no longer pervaded Madison Square Garden, and likewise, after a suitable interval, in Chicago and Boston. Thus the professional hockey season began...
...popular; so much so that last year 1,350,000 persons paid to see games. The organization of hockey resembles that of professional baseball except that, rather than an arbitrary distinction between two leagues, there is a real distinction between two "groups" of a single league. The teams play intergroup games during the season; at the end of the season the leaders in each group play each other, the two second-place teams play each other, the two third-place teams play each other. Then the third-place winner plays the second-place winner. The winner of this series plays...
...Blue is remembered chiefly by Harvard adherents by the strategical coup carried through by the Harvard coaching corps. It was this year that E.L. Gehrke '24, a player who had proved himself in previous years a formidable opponent to the Blue, had been for some time reported unable to play in the final clash with Yale...
...outfit, and with Gehrke out of the Harvard lineup, little favor was bestowed on the University eleven. Gehrke was carried onto the field on a stretcher, from all appearances to witness the game. Momentary attention was focused on him and then all eyes were turned to the start of play at the kickoff. Four or five minutes after the first whistle Harvard made a substitution, and to the amazement of all, the substitute was Gehrke himself. The team pulled together and for a wild first half swept the much more powerful Eli outfit off its feet, the half ending...