Word: set-back
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...tally of 2-1. Four days later, however, Yale took the first of their series with Columbia 8-3, and on April 16, with Coxe on the mound caught the Pennsylvania nine off form and sent it down to a 4-2 defeat. Then came the worst set-back of the year for the New Haven men, for they ran up against the Holy Cross outfit when it was feeling about its best, and, failing to find Tunney, came out at the wrong end of a 14-1 tally...
...clock while the snow was falling rather heavily. The ice was very fast and this and the strange rink put the Freshmen slightly at a disadvantage at first, so that before they could hit their stride Davis had eluded their defense and caged the puck twice. After this initial set-back, however, the 1923 players braced and kept the New Hampshire forwards from threatening the goal...
...determine. In point of territory conquered it has been the most significant movement of the latter years of the war. An Allied gain of equal importance would have been heralded as a great victory. There is, therefore, no discounting the fact that the Allies have suffered a serious set-back. Upon the other side, however, the Allied line has remained intact, retreating only before superior numbers and inflicting tremendous losses upon the enemy. If this war, even after the Russian collapse, is a war of attrition, the Allies have gained rather than lost. The importance the spring drive...
...annual Spring southern trip, which brought forth the first set-back, began on Saturday, April 15, when Mahan defeated the Army's star pitcher, Neyland, by a score of 2 to 1. Charlottesville, Va., was the next stop on the itinerary, and here the University fought out a long 2 to 2 tie with Virginia. The Navy went down to a 4 to 3 defeat with Whitney twirling, but the game was won for Harvard at the expense of losing Wyche, who tore a ligament in his ankle and has been unavailable since. Mahan met a tartar at Washington...
...Cornell having won the first, and was in doubt until the fifteenth inning when Barry, the hard hitting shortstop of the Philadelphia team, lined out a beautiful homer after two men were down, winning the game, 5 to 3. On Decoration Day the extra-inning victors were given a set-back by the Tigers in another after-time affair. Princeton rallied in the 12th and drove out six timely hits for a total of five runs, turning the game in its favor, 7 to 2. The following Saturday the Red and Blue nine took a brace and in the deciding...