Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except for the last inning there were no spectacular plays worth speaking of. In that inning Welton made a splendid running miss of one of Lampy's few hits. Circling round the outfield he managed to arrive just where the ball didn't come down. But Cabot retrieved the fair name of his sheet by running down a ripping...
...club's courts at Longwood. The Crimson racqueters won two of the five singles matches, while the clubmen captured all four of the doubles. Captain G. W. Helm '20, in the first contest of the afternoon, was defeated by Dabney, playing No. 1 on the Longwood team, in two spectacular sots. J. B. Fenno Jr. '21 was also beaten by H. Bundy, the fast Brookline player. L. A. deTurenne '21 and D. P. Robinson Jr. '20, however, gained victories, each after two hard sets. In the doubles the individual scores were much closer than the total, two long deuce sets...
...Tiger outfit, however, with a longer period of practice, and a number of fast individual stars, proved more than a match for the Crimson. Captain Werner, a veteran of last year, played the most spectacular game for the Princetonians, while Herndon and Shipway were only less rapid...
...last inning Jones repeated his spectacular performance, following singles by Chase and Banes with a powerful slam that kept the outfield busy while he tore around the bases and back to port...
Perhaps the most spectacular of the events will be the tug-of-war. Two teams, made up of 20 riders apiece, will try to drag each other across the arena floor in an allowed time of 1 minute and 20 seconds. Military Science 1, composed entirely of Freshmen, and Military Science 2, composed entirely of upperclassmen, will make up the two units...