Word: sox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been cold at the Harvard-Yale game a week ago Saturday, but it had nothing on the Boston College-Holy Cross affair played the day before yesterday in Fenway Park, the regular domicile of the tail-end Red Sox. There was a freezing blast sweeping the length of the gridiron which made it extremely difficult for the players to hold on to the ball and for the spectators to convince themselves that they really gave a hoot who won the game. The specs got pretty badly fooled by the weather conditions, good seats in the middle of the field...
...London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour, the club secretary. Baseman Shires was suspended from the White Sox...
Died. Harry Herbert Frazee, 48, of Manhattan, onetime prizefight promoter, onetime (1915-23) owner of Boston Red Sox, theatrical-producer (A Pair of Sixes, Nothing but the Truth, No No Nanette); in Manhattan...
...fact that the Massachusetts Legislature adjourned early in the afternoon, in order that its members might attend the Red Sox baseball game yesterday, the question of the investigation of charges that the Harvard Business School is influenced by the power trusts was temporarily tabled...
Died. James L. Price, secretary of the Boston "Red Sox" baseball team; by suicide (razor); in Fenway Baseball Park, Boston...