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Harvard tied the score in the same inning. Hammond was hit by a pitched ball and Amsden, batting for Coady, reached first on an error by shortstop Nichols. Howard and Samborski were easy for Robinson, but Tobin, batting for Spalding, smashed a torrid two-bagger down the left field foul line scoring Hammond. A wild throw to second by Robinson let Amsden tally, and a Zarakov single to left tied up the game...
...last stroke of mercy when the bull is in his death throes. Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust is but one among many appetites?for seething, hot colors; for the glare of white sun-light on torrid sand; for violent animal action; for full-throated screaming; for rich wine, amorous deviltries; and a swift, red death rather than a gray...
...Even on the most torrid days under which the White House sweltered, President Coolidge continued to receive callers, with his double-breasted blue coat tightly buttoned...
...Spanish Dictator, Captain-General Primo Rivera, exiled for criticizing his august régime the venerated littérateur, Don Miguel de Unamuno. And so, willy-nilly, off went the poet-philosopher, erstwhile Rector of Salamanca University to Godforsaken Puerto Cabras in the isle of Fuerteventura in the horrid, torrid zone...
Tennis. In the torrid hollow back of Colombes Stadium, scene of the steeplechasers' collapse (TIME, July 21), the Olympic tennis courts were swept clean by Americans. Women's singles: Helen Wills. Women's doubles: Helen Wills and Mrs. George Wightman. Mixed doubles: Mrs. Marion Jessup and Vincent Richards. Men's singles: Vincent Richards. Men's doubles: Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter...