Word: round-robin
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...Capitol Democratic Senators were secretly circulating a round-robin to the President protesting their failure to land jobs for friends. Particularly under fire for failing to appoint deserving Democrats were Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins. Nevada's Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee chairman and president protem of the Senate, was credited with a letter to the President which declared: "It is a strange thing that if a Democrat recommends an appointee, it is political coercion. If a Republican recommends one, it is entirely unselfish. If a Democrat is named ... it involves political...
...them will guarantee 200 ringers in 30 minutes. Once Caroline threw 254 in half an hour, a record. Last week she established another record by throwing 211 ringers in 286 throws, for a percentage of 73.8. By beating all five of her opponents, including her sister, in the round-robin, she became champion. Charlotte, a shade browner and one inch shorter, who like her sister, throws a high slow pitch with 1¼ turns, was runner...
Charles C. Davis of Kansas City and Theodore Allen of Alhambra, Calif., the two finalists who were tied at the end of the round-robin. In the play-off (two games out of three), Allen won, 50-28, 50-27. He had established a world's record, throwing 73.5% ringers in the tournament. A farmer until recently when he got a job with a transfer company, he is a shy, sandy-haired, well-built fellow with a missing tooth. Now 24, he has been pitching half his life, throws a soft lead shoe with 1¼ turns, takes time...
...Conference tournament is really two tournaments, one a round-robin for teams, one a draw tournament for individual champions in singles and doubles. That North Carolina would win the team championship against the three other teams entered was a foregone conclusion. Their score was seven points to one for Duke, one for Virginia, none for V. M. I. Wilmer Hines and Lenoir Wright. No. 1 and No. 2 for North Carolina, won the doubles title together and then played each other in the singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines...
...year's champion, Dorothy Locke of the Salle d'Armes Vince, lost her bout in the semi-final strip against Amy von Hansa, a blonde from the German-American Athletic Club, but both of them qualified, with Marion Lloyd and Mrs. Norman Taylor Jr., for the final round-robin...