Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensation caused by this unheard-of price made Jacob Ruppert a magic name in baseball. In 1923, after a squabble, he bought out Partner Huston for $1,200,000. Same year he opened the $2,500,000 Yankee Stadium. He paid record salaries ($80,000 to Babe Ruth one season), built up the most extensive, most expensive chain of farm teams in the country...
...baseball investment were gratifying. Babe Ruth blasted records and boomed attendance. The Yankees made the other clubs in the League look like seven dwarfs. Since 1921 they have won ten pennants, seven world championships. They won pennants as he wanted them to-early in the season. They won World Series in four straight games. The sport-pages' nickname Owner Ruppert liked best was "Four Straight Jake...
Coach Leo Barry brings a squad of potent Bruins to Cambridge at 8:30 o'clock this evening in an attempt to submerge for the first time a team schooled by Harvard's Hal Ulen. Although they have competed in but one meet this season the Rhode Islanders are known to be strong enough to extend the Crimson swimmers to the limit, if not prevail over them...
...Johnson's Varsity wrestlers resume their mat warfare this afternoon at four o'clock when they meet Tufts at Cousens Gymnasium with each squad seeking its initial victory of the season...
Columbia, Dartmouth, Navy, and Pennsylvania should finish the season in that order, according to what they've shown so far, although Navy has a team of sophomores which hasn't competed yet this year. Dartmouth may find a much higher spot in League rankings if Julian Armstrong, a sophomore who has turned in 23.5 in the 50 and 52.4 in the 100, can escape the Dartmouth equivalent of probation. Only one League meet has been held--Columbia's 46-29 win over Penn...