Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the first team and the Freshmen engaged in a five game trip during the week. Coach Mahan's men went as far south as Maryland where they won their first three games from Catholic University, the University of Maryland and the Navy, but succumbed in the last two to the powerful nines from Georgetown and Columbia. The Freshmen, however, gained an unblemished record for their journey by starting at home with the defeat of Williston Academy and then taking decisive wins from four preparatory schools. Pomfret, Loomis, Hotchkiss, and Choate...
...University defeats came in the last two encounters of the trip. Georgetown, on Friday, got, away to a fast start and overwhelmed the Crimson by 15 to 3. The pitching situation in this game was difficult as neither Spalding nor Toulmin could work and the responsibility was given to Andrews and Cordingley, who seemed unable to resist the Georgetown onslaught. The last game with Columbia was probably the best of the trip although the Blue eked out a 7 to 6 win in the final inning by overcoming a two run Harvard lead...
During the trip the 1928 men elected their captain for the coming season. William Barksdale Jones, of Vaughan, Mississippi, who plays center field for the Freshmen, was named to lead the team. Jones prepared for the University at Andover, where he made his letter in football and baseball...
Another factor in MacMillan's favor this trip will be the weather. He made his last try for Crocker Land at the beginning of an Arctic winter. With 24 hours of daylight to work in, he expects to accomplish in a few days what it used to take months...
...German pilot of the ZR3 (now the Los Angeles (TIME, Dec. 8), before the Royal Aeronautical Society of London, last week, presented an interesting estimate of the commercial possibilities of airship travel based upon the service of three large airships for regular Atlantic crossings. The approximate cost of each trip would be $50,000, while the revenue would be something like $80,000 from 25 to 30 passengers (at a rate of about $5 for each pound avoirdupois), $15,000 from mails and $20,000 from baggage and express packages, leaving a neat profit for the operating company. The price...