Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vastly vexed was the Associated Press, chief rival of the U. P. Its Washington chief protested to the Senate, claiming the right to publish executive session proceedings, implying that the United Press report of the Lenroot poll was not accurate. The only inaccuracy formally complained of had to do with two absent Senators. Nevertheless the A. P., in self defense, kept belittling its rival's scoop. This not-very-sporting A. P. letter brought mumbles of derision from Senators...
Holy Cross, long the arch-rival of Crimson nines, will do battle with the University baseball team on Fitton Field, Worcester, this afternoon, in what promises to be one of the season's hardest encounters. Last year Coach Barry's charges captured both contests of, the two-game series, and should make a strong bid to make it three straight today...
...intercollegiate athletics at Harvard university, has intimated that the trend at Harvard is toward a diminution of intercollegiate competition in athletics. And he has intimated still further that the ultimate outcome of the policy would be a severance of all athletic relations except those with Yale, a traditional rival whom she has met since the middle of the previous century...
...obvious reasons, the hour has been changed. The final selection of speakers, who will be versed equally in the classics and the natural sciences has not yet been made, but it is hoped to secure several men of prominence to address the assembled societies. Whether or not the rival teams will engage in the customary formalities of fraternization, as has hitherto been the case, or whether the victory will be celebrated in Cambridge is a matter of conjecture...
...side twists of pitcher Hensil once again managed to keep the Harvard sluggers in check as the Villanova diamond dusters conquered the Crimson baseball forces by a 7 to 6 score. Yesterday afternoon's clash on Soldiers Field produced brilliant as well as shoddy brands of ball as the rival aggregations fought out a battle bitterly-contested to the final play...