Word: balls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very big, but Rudolph and Greenleaf had another audience which followed their contest in newspapers and discussed it in doorways-the enormous and tremendously expert audience of U. S. pool players. Pocket billiards is another name for continuous pool. You play it on a sixpocket table with 15 numbered balls and a cue ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly-are variations of this Green game...
...Balls. President John Heydler of the National League said that home-runs in his league dropped off 45% when umpires roughened the dead white, glossy balls with dirt. He suggested that if manufacturers left the leather covers unfinished instead of polishing them, pitchers would be able to handle the ball better, batters would not be able to see it so well...
...Spit ball. Went on Heydler: "The spitball . . . will never return ... an unsightly, insanitary form of delivery...
...periods, eleven Carnegie Technicians played as though every one of them rated the All American. They scored 13 first downs and 13 points. The Trojans, fidgeting in the line and scrambling over each other after the ball was snapped, were lucky to get two passes over to tie the score at the end of the half. In the third quarter Carnegie Tech started again but Eyth fumbled and Trojan Tappaan recovered...
...Engineers won the tap-off, but it was for Harvard, represented by T. I. Nido '30 to score the first basket. From the start to the half, the two teams shared the honors with even playing. Harvard continually took the ball halfway up the court and tried for a goal. M. I. T. showed considerable inaccuracy for some time as shot after shot bounced off the back board or dropped off the edge of the basket, but after a time Technology tightened up and took the lead 7 to 4. A rally on the part of the Crimson netted...