Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Determined to upset the odds favoring a Mitchell victory, Tufts will start one of its ace hurlers, either Al Galuska or Anthony Wojciochowski in order to check the Crimson drive for its seventh win of the season...
Boasting an ace twirler in Ingalls and a sharp-hitting, classy infield, the Varsity nine must uncover another dependable hurler and strike new life into a weak outfield in order to survive encounters with Yale and Dartmouth, the two teams challenging the Crimson's claim to the League championship...
...past year has cast several shadows on the fame of Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whom no less an authority than War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker calls the "best transport pilot in the U. S." Last summer Dick Merrill flew Crooner Harry Richman to England, was forced down in Wales (TIME, Sept. 14). On the return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain...
From Intercollegiate squash champion to the number one post on the tennis team is all in the day's work to Dick Dorson. The same endurance and determination to get everything which have made him Harvard's squash luminary have made him the ace of the netmen. Accuracy rather than speed is his forte...
Coach Fred Mitchell's ace hurler, Ed Ingalls, kept the opposition's 13 hits well scattered with the exception of the disastrous fourth inning, when St. John's capitalized on four solid blows and two errors to chalk up six runs...