Word: willowing
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...double, are already staked out and a dozen men are at work completing the surface. Six inches of cinders is the foundation for the clay courts, whose surface is to be of decayed rock. Bleachers are to be erected at the north end of the field under two great willow trees which will afford ample shade for the spectators...
...Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts, crowned itself with laurel and avenged its former reverses of fortune, when it defeated the Yale chapter in the annual game on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. Broad-browed scholars who, though familiar with Newton's laws of motion, had never before tried the effect of willow on horse-hide, rose to the occasion and mashed the pill into a pulp. The result,--six runs in the first inning and seven more in the course of the game, while the visitors could barely nose out ten tallies. The features of the contest were Gilday's screaming homer...
...clubs on the second Varsity diamond with nine of the hardest thinkers in Phi Beta Kappa. Last year, Lampy had an off season, with a total percentage of zero games won; but today the Morse men will put on the diamond as active an aggregation as ever wielded the willow. The scholars, knowing they will need all A's to win, are keyed up for the occasion. The Lampoon's special battery, three speeds reversible and left-hand control, will start with Wentworth on the mound and Herter at the receiving end. Wentworth, who has been in special training...
...surrounding a nucleus of veterans. Acting-Captain McIntosh will hold down his old berth at the pivot sack, with Edgerton cavorting in the short field. These two with Stiles, a raw recruit, at third, will make up a stonewall infield; and Osborne, though inexperienced, is a demon with the willow, and will cover the initial bag in Daubert fashion. Veterans Smith, Brown, and Morris will form the slugging outfield trio. "Steamship" Hall, the peerless arterial twirler, will appear on the slab with Reynolds, another old timer, at the receiving end. Manager Henderson intends to try out all his new material...
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