Word: willowing
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...down here, when they gave up playing on Jarvis and Holmes Fields." Dennis reminisced. "Those were fine fields, up where the Law School is now; and they used to have some fine ball games on Holmes. When we couldn't get in we used to climb up in the willow trees and see the game fine...
...those days the game was called "bandy", from the crook in the stick they used for striking "the cat". The stick, or "bandy", as it was called, was made of willow, and a good specimen was much prized by the owner...
Director King Vidor at times achieves heights: the love scene in a boat gliding under a veil of weeping willow leaves; the tantalizing suspense as the King's eccentric moods alternately delay and hasten his procession to the scene of execution; the camera angles at which the "Stunts" are filmed. Bardelys deserves its popularity, though it falls short of the best of its kind...
...figured only in seven games this year, but it is nevertheless the highest on the Crimson roster. Burns, ousted from the lead by the prowess of Chase, is further entrenched with a rise of twelve points. Captain Todd, and Zarakov, third and fourth respectively, each swung the willow during the past week to give them a higher average than that before the deciding Tiger contest. De Rham, although he did not get into the game against former Crimson diamond stars on Wednesday, pulled his average in the Princeton game alone from .222 to .250 poling out a double...
...removal in favor of a pinch hitter brings to mind an incident in Puffer's career last spring as a Second team twirler. Up to the time of the Yale Second team game, he had not violated the tradition that a pitcher should be impotent with the willow, and in the ninth inning of that game, with the Yale seconds leading by three runs, Coach Lake was tempted to send a pinch hitter to bat in his stead. But, possibly reflecting that the Crimson was too far gone for even a pinch hitter to do any good, the Second team...