Word: willowing
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...Lancaster, Wis., Mayor W. J. Bailie so experimented with his Willow Twig apple tree that this year 40 kinds of apples hang from the limbs...
...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
...Ticknor '31 fanned, but Captain G. E. Donaghy '29 came through with a smack to right which scored Nugent and put McGrath on third. Coach Mitchell here inserted S. L. Batchelder '31 in place of J. A. Prior '29 who was having an off day with the willow, and the former grounded out to second base, McGrath counting on the play. The rally ended there as T. W. Gilligan '31 flied out to centerfield...
...Prior '29 has continued to lead his diamond colleagues with the willow, having boosted his average three points to a .422 average. E. H. McGrath '31 and T. W. Gilligan '31 have succeeded in maintaining their positions in second and third place respectively. Captain G. E. Donaghy '29 has found his way into the .300 class, while A. G. Whitney '29 and B. H. Ticknor '31 have been expelled from baseball's elite...
During the fifth and sixth frames. Molloy, who had assumed twirling duties, baffled the Villanova willow-wielders, but a series of safe blows in the seventh gave them what proved to be their winning run. The Harvard pitcher had matters well in hand from then on. The final stanza saw the spectacular Crimson rally fail narrowly...