Category: Sports
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America’s New Influence on European Life
American soldiers had spent years in Europe during World War I. What effect would that have on Europeans? This article predicted several ways, including what they’d eat, how they’d dress, and what women would look for in men. What European women would look for in men: [American men] were more serious, too. At close quarters they […]
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Baseball as Means of Keeping the Doctor Away
With the MLB season just resuming again last week, let’s take a trip back to 1918, when the two biggest sports were baseball and boxing. Basketball and football were very much secondary on the popularity scale. A recent conversation with my brother speculated about which people from 2018 would still be remembered by the general […]
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Super-Golf Among American Players
In 1917, James Barnes set a new 72-hole golf record with 283 strokes. In January of this year, Justin Thomas set the current 72-hole record with 253 strokes at the Sony Open in Honolulu — a full 30 strokes lower than the world record a century ago. That’s an astonishing average of only 3.51 strokes […]
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Ranks of Outdoor Sport Are Thinned by War
World War I was preventing athletic competitions from occurring as they normally would: “For the first time in forty-one years the intercollegiate games, in which all the larger college teams of the East and many from the West have been participants, have been abandoned because of the fact that more than a thousand of the […]
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Where College Boys Prefer Study to Baseball
Reed College in Oregon, which held its first classes in 1911 only six years prior to this article, undertook several unusual initiatives among colleges at the time to created a student body excelling in academics. Among them was a mandatory senior thesis for undergraduates, not just graduates, and a lack of official intercollegiate sports teams. Both […]
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Golf Clubs Make It Hard for Women to Play
Golf clubs have long been male-dominated, to the point that Augusta National Golf Club didn’t admit its first women until 2012. After an Olympics absence since 1904, both men’s and women’s golf have been reinstated at the 2016 Olympics in Rio next month. But it’s long been a struggle for women to be accepted into […]
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Sure Sign Of Woman’s Emancipation In The Increased Size Of Her Shoes
Shoe manufacturers don’t make small-sized shoes for women any more. They say women’s feet have grown bigger in the last fifteen or twenty years. Small feet, of course, are only comparative. A small foot for a woman twenty years ago was 2 or 2½. Now it is said that there are few if any 2 […]
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Business Girls’ Noonday Diversion
Have you heard about the latest craze that all the business girls are doing on their lunchbreak? That’s right, they’re Ballroom Dancing. “Gracious, May, you don’t want any ice cream; we haven’t time.” “Yes, we have. I’ll eat it fast. It’s only 12:30. We can get in two waltzes and a two-step easy.” This is […]
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Scientific Baseball Has Changed The Old Game
Fans of baseball with enjoy this look at how the game was changing 100 years ago. Scientific baseball of to-day — “inside ball” they call it — consists in making the opposing team think you are going to make a play one way, then shift suddenly and do it another. The modern game has developed […]
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Modern Woman Getting Nearer The Perfect Figure
The woman pictured on the top left is Annette Kellermann, an Austrian professional swimmer. She was so renowned for being a “perfectly proportioned woman” that she eventually wrote a book and health plan so that, as her ad says, “you CAN have a figure as perfect as mine!” Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent, the focus of […]
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