Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately Eddie Ingalis, who was in the box for the Crimson that day, will be unable to pitch and attempt to even the count, having been injured in Saturday's game with California. Coach Fred Mitchell is relying on John Mahoney, slow-ball baffler, to do the twirling. The backstop question is still undecided...
Into a beautiful little town across the Thames from Windsor Castle, with narrow streets, ancient Gothic and Tudor buildings and the fairest cricket pitch in England, visitors poured last week until it looked like a crowded London suburb. All came to see a 100-year-old ceremony at a 500-year-old school-Eton's famed Fourth of June festival celebrating the birthday of Patron George III. They looked at the playing fields where Waterloo was won, watched the fireworks, the traditional cricket matches, the river procession of ten racing shells. They were no end impressed by the strange...
From his cell in Alcatraz Prison Al Capone sent for a Hohner two-tone pitch pipe to keep himself...
...matches are at 18 holes-which means that luck rather than skill has a large part in determining the winner. For U. S. players the chief hazards always are the wind (invariably a cross one), a course studded with thick gorse and tricky sand traps, greens that require a pitch-&-run shot rather than the backspin approach most U. S. golfers play. More serious than these natural hazards last week was the luck of the draw which placed the unseeded U. S. Walker Cuppers in the same bracket, necessitated their killing one another 0:1 in the early rounds...
...teammate Charley Kocsis-who was in turn defeated by the homebred Stevenson later in the day. Lone U. S. survivor of the storm was Charley Yates. Playing the most extraordinary golf of the tournament, nonchalant and grinning Yates, who chattered with the galleries between his shots and played the pitch-&-run like a native, proceeded to eliminate: 1) two-time Champion Cyril Tolley in the quarter-finals (during which he made the most sensational shot of the week, an eagle 2 on the 372-yd. second hole), 2) onetime Champion Hector Thomson in the semifinals, and 3) seasoned Cecil Ewing...