Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first practice of the year, held yesterday at Soldiers Field, 30 candidates for the University baseball team reported to Coach Jack Slattery. Among them were the majority of the regular players on last spring's University and Freshman nines, with the exception of a few men playing football...
Cross-country work was commenced yesterday with the announcement to the 50 odd runners who reported at the Locker Building that Dr. W. T. McCarty, who formerly ran and later coached under Jack Moakley, the famous Cornell director, had been secured to coach the Crimson harriers during the eight weeks of the fall season...
...decisive victory went to the managing staff. Through a long contest lasting thirteen innings the oar greasers piled up thirteen runs, while the hashslingers were able to bring in only five. The victory was due chiefly to the powerful pitching of Paul Withington '09, and the expert fielding of Jack Watson '22, whose specialty was picking off the flies of the waiters. Elmer Long '22 showed remarkable, although unexpected abilities at the bat, and his slugging ability did much to pile up the thirteen runs of the managers...
...Elis made off with their booty while Jack Watson '22 carried the news to the crews who were in the boathouse down on the river bank. The Crimson oarsmen rushed up the hill where their opponents' quarters are, starting to sack the rooms. Fortunately before things had gone very far, someone mentioned the fact that it was a little boy who had stolen the flag. Then ensued apologies, and a return of the flags by the captains. The old agreement of no open hostilities was renewed...
...jazz music, concluding with a Chinese burlesque of "The Sun Daughter" in similar saxophone harmony. Charles and Henry Rigoletto assisted by the Swanson sisters, met with much applause in "Around the World,' an act which is as original as it is full of action. Among the other entertainers, Jack McLallen and May Carson do some clever work on roller skates, Frank J. Conroy appears in a blackface absurdity entitled "Spirits of 1920," while Stella Tracey and Carl McBride are seen in a singing and dancing specialty. Donald Roberts, in a repertoire of songs, also receives a good share...