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...Yanks. On the appointed day, the temperature was in the 90s, flocks of cawing crows hovered low overhead, and Indian fans heckled the Americans' both from the stands and from nearby apartment-house balconies. When California's Dennis Ralston blasted a serve past Krishnan and the linesman signaled a clean ace, the galleries set up such a hullabaloo that the umpire shrugged, and replaced the linesman...
...Trespassing," said the defendants. "Inadvertent," corrected the jury. Four years ago, Virginia Warren Daly, 34, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and wife of What's My Linesman John Charles Daly, was walking through an alley at the finish of a night baseball game in Washington, D.C., fell into a stairwell adjoining a gas station and broke her right leg in three places. Demanding $50,000 from the gas station and an oil company, she won $17,000 damages for her injuries...
...stomach tied in knots. In Adelaide. Pancho's tennis-toughened hands took such a beating that he lost in five sets and left the court with three fingers bleeding. Next day, heckled by a pro-Hoad crowd, Pancho slammed a ball out of the stadium when a linesman's call went the wrong way. He snarled at a slow-moving ball boy, gulped a handful of salt tablets, and finally took out his explosive anger on Hoad. His blistering serves kicked too high and hard to be handled. He got his racket up to almost...
With this terse statement, Princeton officially ended athletic relations with Harvard some 31 years ago this Nov.11. The reasons for this break were not a stolen drum or an injured linesman but a feeling "of many Harvard men that Princeton plays football in a manner unbecoming a gentleman and cares more for athletic victories than clean sportsmanship." Whether or not this feeling was prompted by the Tigers beating the Crimson 36-0 and 34-0 in 1924 and 1925 is unknown; the fact is that the two institutions did not compete against one another in any sport until...
Three scores came early in the first period. Star linesman John Mudd tallied soon after the game opened, and Al Butzel and John Freeman soon followed. In the second period, Bill Wexler headed the ball in for the fourth goal...