Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after he hits his Pap a lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...
Ferdy (The Bull) Nadherny of gridiron and basketball fame heads a list of long ball hitters among the Eli yearlings. In commenting on Crimson prospects, Coach Mee Berg said yesterday, "We got lots of men on base but we have trouble getting them in." Berg plans to throw his ace lefthander John Hansen into the fray tomorrow, while standing pat on the rest of the lineup...
...uprising in the bottom half of the sixth, after Charly Senay's towering triple to right with the sacks full of Deacons had put them out in front, 4 to 3. Eliot's third hurler of the day, Bill Foster, jughandled his way to a decision over Kirkland's ace rightbander Sam Bush, shelling him from the mound personally with a two-run double in the explosive sixth...
Pete Putnam, who edged out Yale ace Bobby Monetti in the second race of the afternoon, was the star of the contest, placing first for the Crimson in both events of a meet that was hampered because of very light winds...
Johnny Hansen, ace Freshman southpaw, racked up his fourth straight win yesterday as he shut out Andover 3 to 0, raising to 36 the total of innings he has pitched without giving up an earned run. The Jayvees, afflicted with fielding weakness and pitching wildness, dropped a 4 to 1 decision to the New Hampshire juniors here...