Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dennis Enright, care-taker par excellence of the Soldiers Field turf, has prepared a new diamond for the Second team, while it is expected that several diamonds on the old Freshman football field will be available to the class squads. The expansion of class baseball will be carried out much as it was in the case of football last fall, although the class champions will not meet a championship class team from Yale this year. Next year a still further broadening of the scope of the class athletics will take place when new fields, across the street from Soldiers Field...
...first short outdoor practice for two infields two days ago was followed yesterday by a long workout for the entire baseball squad. The early arrival of warm weather and the excellent condition of the Soldiers Field turf has allowed Coach Mitchell to take his charges out of the cramped quarters of the old baseball cage considerably earlier than usual...
...true-that someone with a name like Vanderbilt is "biggest clubman." The 1927 edition of Club Members of New York shows that Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. belongs to 16 clubs- Larchmont Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, University, Union, Knickerbocker, New York Yacht, Union League, Century Association, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf and Field, Engineers', Yale, Seawanhaka and Corinthian Yacht. Mr. Vanderbilt's nearest competitor is Alexander Smith Cochran, member of 13 clubs. Tied at 12: Harry Payne Whitney and Clarence H. Mackey. Tied at 11: C. Oliver, Iselin, J. P. Morgan, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. Tied...
According to English tradition, polo also originated from the same maternal cat. Unlike hockey, however, the young gentlemen mounted horses instead of skates, and developed their game on the turf in lieu...
...muskrat's ear quite as eloquent as unearthly tresses of an undine, rather badly jointed wooden doll is as truly alive to him as the most grizzled of grey old men who have obviously been alive for centuries. He cannot view a stone without anticipation; the very turf and atmosphere of his world teem with unimaginable whispers and apparitions...