Word: rider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cotton '29, riding in number 2 position, was the high scorer with six tallies to his credit. F. A. Clarke '29 was the big stick for the Crimson. He was the hardest rider on the field, drove four shots between the marks, and passed five times to his teammates for successful tallies. Robert Gibb '29, playing in place of W. H. White '28 who was taken sick, scored three times...
...White '27, star number 2 rider on the University team, is the only Harvard horseman who was granted an increase. His handicap was raised from two to three goals. The other Harvard players rank as follows: F. A. Clark '29, 4 goals; R.A. Pinkerton '27, 3 goals; Alexander Shaw '28, 2 goals...
...Ballyhoo. A maudlin play stutters about the love of Starlight Lil, circus-rider, for an irreproachable young man. She considers herself unworthy. To free the boy from his passion for her, she pretends to offer herself as the stake in a cowpunchers' card game. That makes the hero so angry, he rushes out into the night, divests himself of virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover...
...Pinkerton '27, playing number one position, will lead the Crimson riders. Ho is a clever rider and a hard, accurate hitter. W. H. White '28, number two man, is a very aggressive player and knows Pinkerton's game. F. A. Clark '29, who completes the trio, has played a great deal of polo, but is rather inexperienced in the indoor game. J. P. Cotton '29, will relieve Pinkerton. He was captain of his Freshman team and had a great deal of experience playing in England last summer...
...press syndicates, wrote about "this pleasant looking little courthouse, all white and trim" and about the "Pig Woman." Everybody focused on the Pig Woman, so-called because she once kept pigs. She was the star witness for the State. By name Jane Gibson, she used to be a circus rider. She brought to court with her a small baby (called the "mystery child" because of its obscure parentage). Erratic, obese, disheveled, suffering from a mortal organic disease, she said that she was driving her mule down a lane the night that Dr. Hall was killed. She heard shots...