Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even this sturdy son of Hard Tack would not have enjoyed crosscountry travel 25 years ago, when most thoroughbreds were shipped in boxcars attached to slow freight trains. Today horses travel in specially built, steam-heated horse cars attached to first-class passenger trains, have all the comforts of their home stables...
Primed for a slow, even stroke over the Denley distance University sweep-swingers meet two completely over-hauled boats, but neither is expected to challenge seriously Harvard's supremacy on the waves. Rutgers has already bowed before the Bengal oarsmen and M. I. T. has met but ineffective competition thus...
Dame Fortune smiled favorably on the bespectacled slow-baller during the next canto, but smiles turned to frowns in the fourth as two B. U. hits, and a walk counted two more tallies for the opposition...
Although Slim Curtiss handed Navy a 7-4 setback during the spring trip and received credit for a 12-7 win over Penn, the tall Junior hurler has not been at top form lately. His slow ball has been cutting the batter too high, while his fast-ball has been dropping instead of the former jump...
...Healey's fast ball has been inconsistent to date. He is leading the circuit pitchers in strike-outs with 13, but against the Tigers was definitely off and batted from the mound. Although John Mahoney held B. U. to a stand-off, the veteran slow-ball artist can not be counted on as a consistent winner in Ivy competition...