Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite its 14-4 drubbing of B.U. on Wednesday the Varsity will have a tough time against the Purple. Annually Holy Cross can be depended on to turn out a good ball team, and with a victory over Yale behind then it looks as if the Crusaders this year will prove no exception. Having Loughlin on the mound, however, is a pretty strong asset for Harvard. He has shown himself one of the best ditchers in the college circuit and ought to be capable of taking care of the heavy part of the Purple batting order with only his usual...
Moving Ben Prouty into the second base hole should help out Coach Fred Mitchell with a tough situation. The two previous incumbents. Johnny Fitzpatrick ad Phil Hines were hitting for 100 and .222 respectively. Ware, who will return to his old center field berth was swatting the apple for .286 when Prouty took over...
Pennsylvania's path is easier than Harvard's for the rest of the route. The Red and Blue next plays Princeton two games--one at Philadelphia next Saturday and another in the Jungle a week later. But the Tigers have been known to be tough on Penn, as they were tough on Dartmouth's Indians last Saturday, Dartmouth eased the Bengals out of the championship picture by winning the opening game, 8 to 4, but the Tigers repaid this unkindness by shading the Indians, 5 to 4, in the nightcap, and so prevented Jeff Tesreau's men from swinging...
...Dillinger, we hear, was loudly applauded when his frank and honest face appeared on the screen of a Chicago cinema. Never having seen the Robin Hood in this tough of the prairies, this maudlin applause seems quite out of place; almost as much as a lynching itself. If Chicago audiences want to cheer the underdog, let them do it heartily, but it would be better to get him first, and prove that he is the underdog. At present he is probably motoring through the Middle West, spraying the corn and the farmers with his automatic exterminator...
...wrong. In 1924 he began with petty robbery, was identified after a grocery store hold-up at Mooresville outside of Indianapolis. For that he got a sentence of from 10 to 20 years. And the chapter ended with him in the Indiana State Penitentiary after he had proved too tough a customer to be handled in the reformatory...