Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winner's field. It was the Crimson's second loss of the summer season. The losing streak which Portsmouth started was brought to three by Holy Cross as the Crusaders received seven unearned runs to nullify by a 7 to 6 score a neat pitching job by ace Jack Wallace...
Aloof from the mud and excitement last week was the man who started it all. A wildcatter and full-fledged promoter, Ace (for Assaph) Gutowsky is a 58-year-old Russian with a Gregory Ratoff accent. On 28 previous occasions he had sunk his money and drills into the soil, found nothing...
Jack Wallace, Coach Stahl's ace hurler, "brought it on himself." Jack came down off the mound to make two misplays in the fatal sixth, and that proved to be the ball game...
...City, Pa., was ready to welcome home its hero, 25-year-old Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski, top-scoring Thunderbolt pilot of the Eighth Air Force and top U.S. ace. Gabby's fiancée, pretty Kay Cochran, 20, had made all the plans for a wedding...
...playing on some fine the ball clubs he has opposed some of the greatest players of all time, and the Chief has superlatives for every one. He calls Bronko Nagurski "the greatest plunger of all time"; Tuffy Leemans, "a real gentleman"; Mel Hein, "in a class by himself"; Ace Parker, "the greatest player in all-around ability...