Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stalwarts take their sport with some seriousness. Twenty thousand pounds were contributed by Indian Rajahs, princes, potentates to send these athletes to the U. S. and equip them with a string of 45 international mounts. They travel as a unit, not, as in former years, a group of individual star players. The manager, Col. H. A. Tomkinson, said: "This will be a team and not just four players. ... All of England is behind us and it is a united effort All the players are fit and well and quite ready to begin playing fast games as soon as the ponies...
Music will be in order from the beginning of the spread. M. M. Goodhue is to supply a special dance orchestra of eleven pieces with two pianos, and with a special group of Russian musicians who will perform on three string intsruments for waltzes and during the intermissions...
Observers recalled that Chang Tsung-chang has the reputation of being China's "basest War Lord," keeps a string of over 100 concubines, and has often put to death every living soul in captured villages. His superior, the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, evidently instructed that Mme. Borodin should be gently treated because of the might of Soviet Russia...
That Coach Mitchell has considerable respect for the prowess of the southerners with the bat is shown in his announcement that Barbee, Harvard's first string twirler who has lost but one game in ten starts, will be on the mound for the University team this afternoon. Barbee went through fourteen long albeit successful innings against Holy Cross Saturday and would, therefore, not ordinarily be expected to hurl today...
...maintained today against Creson, the southpaw pitcher who will face the Crimson sluggers. It is possible that Lord will be replaced at first by Tobin, another lefthanded batter, while Duchin's liking for the left approach to the plate may conceivably cause his substitution for Chauncey, the righthanded first string backstop...