Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, South State Street's Pacific Garden Mission, where in 1886 a Chicago ballplayer named Billy Sunday was "saved" and thus given his start as the most famed of U.S. evangelists, celebrated its 70th anniversary. "Ma" Sunday, 79, Billy's widow, was on hand for the celebration. Said she: "Billy would have liked to have been here tonight. He loved this place and always came back to it. That's his old piano, and that's the old pulpit. But I know he's Up There pitching ball for the mission...
Estes, who started last Sunday with just an idea and the ability to knock on doors found 34 men who wanted to play in the intramural league but could not do so because they lived in dormitories. He wants to add 20 more players to the squad to insure the strongest team in the league. With the first game October 8 the "Outhouses" have talent ranging from a 248 pound six-foot-three linesman to several light, but fleet backs...
Announcement of the re-opening of the Brooks House Library was also made yesterday by Lipton, who disclosed that books for many college courses are contained in the PHB collection. Open daily except Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the library will be supported by a $.25 "use fee" collected from each man taking books. A $.25 deposit, which is returnable, will be charged on each volume...
Turnstile Sociology. Jackie's daring on the baselines has been matched by shrewd Branch Rickey's daring on the color line. Rickey gave Robinson his chance. As boss of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Rickey is a mixture of Phineas T. Barnum and Billy Sunday, who is prone to talk piously of the larger and higher implications of what he is doing. There were large implications, of course, in signing Jackie Robinson, but the influence on the box office was a lot easier to figure. Jackie Robinson has pulled about $150,000 in extra admissions this season...
Sole indoor heated garage with a few vacancies remaining on Sunday was the Continental Annex, which opened on the first of the month at 40 Boylston Street and accommodates 325 vehicles. Manager Vincent A. Connors gets $25 a month for reservation, on a nine month contract basis...