Word: spit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...learned sons wage today in New Haven. What could be more appropriate for this endeavor at brainy baseball than Friday, the thirteenth? The game may indicate how compulsory athletics will develop baseball players from the scholarly students. Perhaps the brains of a modern Aristotle may develop a new, elusive spit ball curve; perhaps a Phi Beta Kappa athlete may invent a method for getting home run hits every time at bat Who knows...
...game should be somewhat of a pitchers' battle between D. J. O'Keeffe '18 and Talcott. Of the two, O'Keeffe is undoubtedly the more effective, but has been hampered in the past by poor support. During the last two weeks, he has succeeded in developing a spit-ball which should carry him through any tight places today. Talcott will rely mainly on the use of a fast ball, fairly well controlled...
...that are made to drain off the sur- face water as it splashes up into them are broken in one place, so that the water that flows into them at that end of the tank flows back into the pool again, bringing with it the phlegm that has been spit into the trough by the swimmers. On one occasion I noticed that all the troughs were filled to overflowing, and asked the attendant how it happened that the drains were allowed to become stopped. In reply he treated it as a matter of light importance, and, worse yet, of frequent...
...University second tennis team in its first match of the season yesterday barely managed top defeat Technology by a score of 5 matches to 4. The singles matches were spit even, and two of the doubles matches, but in the third doubles match E. O. Baker '17 and W. P. Whitehouse, 2d., '17 defeated Alley and Kaler of Technology thereby winning the meet...