Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning the prospects of the coming season Harlow had little to say except that with sixteen of the twenty-two letter men graduating it was a big chance for the Freshmen. In order that they can get an opportunity to learn the system and to practice by themselves before the members of the Varsity come out, they are getting the call a week early on March...
...preliminary meeting held yesterday in the Carey Cage 15 Freshmen signed up for the Yardling lacrosse squad. With the hardest season in its history ahead, the stickmen, under the coaching of Johnnie Witherspoon, a former All-American star, will practice daily the rest of this month in preparation for the first game immediately after Spring Vacation...
...Rome last week international tennis, for four decades Sport's roving good-will ambassador, received a kick in its white flannel pants. Drawing up manifestoes for the coming season, the Italian Tennis Federation announced that: 1) Italian tennis players henceforth will be required to play international matches in uniform; 2) handshaking between opponents will be forbidden "to avoid the weed of intimacy which for too long has infested lawn tennis courts...
...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
...Wichita, Kans., President Ray Dumont of the National Semi-pro Baseball Congress announced that he planned to dress his umpires next season in stripes. He explained that, since semi-pros wear all sorts of colors, "the striped uniform . . . serves as the best contrast," denied that fans' shouts of "thief" and "robber" had anything to do with the proposed change...