Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please advise your Sports Editor to look up the record of Earl ("Dutch") Clark, quarterback of Colorado College (Colorado Springs) of the Rocky Mountain Conference. Watch him, playing on the small College of about 500 students, make at least honorable mention for All American...
...invention of one of the devils; it contained three cylinders, which, when opened, disclosed a marionette called Mima working her wiles on a simple forester. The diabolical mechanic who had designed this dynamo was displaying its efficiency to a Satanic investigation committee which sat in the orchestra pit to watch. Mima took the forester away from his wife with waggles of her physique; she made him commit the sins of the calendar and other more intimate ones, as blackmail and pandery. At last, it was the intention of the devil that the forester should show that he had lost even...
Baseball is the chief interest of Japanese sporting bloods. Eighty thousand Nipponese gather to watch schoolboy baseball games. Each summer day on the Eastern Island crowds stand in the streets of town and city to hear the latest baseball scores. During the late World Series, to which Japanese newspaper correspondents travelled 8,000 miles. Japanese excitement eclipsed that shown in Manhattan or St. Louis. Were the World Series played in Japan, it would be necessary to hollow out the crater of Fujiyama to provide a stadium of suitable dimensions...
...they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack: they like to play as well as watch. Japanese players, unlike U.S. ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers in Chicago. To them, the Yankees have always been...
Although 20,000 persons were usually on hand to watch him play, and though the curious cries of the Japanese enthusiasts, who greeted him as Babe Ruth's cousin, must have helped convince him that he had not passed his prime, Ty Cobb, as soon as he returned to the U. S., reiterated his intention of retiring from professional baseball. He said that he was not considering becoming the manager of any big league team; he will go for a hunting trip soon and after that he will spend a year in touring Europe...