Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following scrub baseball games were played Saturday: "Scrub 1" 39, "Hot Tomales" 8. "Push Balls" 19, "Moses Lights" 11. "Nine Big Bluffs" 9, "Penny Sports" 8. The "Good Shepherds" defaulted to the "Hot Hands...
Yesterday afternoon the "Peevish IceCutters" defeated the "Hot Tomales" by the score of 25-18; the "Push Balls" defeated the Hollis Hall team, 10-8; the "Farmers" defeated the "Good Shepherds," 9-1, and the "Penny Sports" defaulted to the "Hoorahs...
Aside from the decided raising of the total, the most remarkable features of the test were the strength of grip and the large figure recorded for the dip or push up. The individual tests are as follows...
...statement of the facts: There have been sporadic instances of encounters between quick-tempered individuals. The vaguest rumor is the only foundation for the statement that these men were "scrapping to pay off old scores." It being physically impossible in the thick of the crowd to do anything but push, these "scraps," as they are called, have all occurred on the out skirts. Some of the spectators have taken the conduct of these four or five individuals whom they could best observe to indicate that the men in the thick of the rush were doing something which they could...
...backs on the third eleven in the second line-up did some brilliant work, which made the practice the most interesting so far this year. Dayton made some long runs, chiefly through Moulton's ability to push Loop aside easily, as well as through the effective blocking of Cozzens and Cabot...