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...catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone hit it," said the Canton manager. "Cyclone" Young had earned a nickname and a place in organized ball...
...shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take so many pills," he said, "they have to fight among themselves if I take them too close to gether." His daily quota of alcohol, though still substantial enough to keep him in good standing among the alltime public enemies of the W.C.T.U., had fallen far below...
...Morton, who played the game at forward with a taped leg, was important around the backboard as well as the basket--he dropped in 13 points extending to 839 an all-time Cornell player scoring record he set Friday at Brown...
Unable to control either backboard or to penetrate the Indians' tight zone defense, the varsity fell behind, 18 to 9, at the end of the first quarter and trailed, 41 to 22, at the half. The Crimson scored on only 19 percent of the few shots it could get away in the first half and hit on bat 13 of 55 for the whole dismal evening...
Sophomore Harry Sacks continued his attack on the Harvard foul shooting record as he notched 18 points, 16 of them coming from the free throw line. Teammate Billy Dennis played another fine game, scoring 17 points on seven field goals. Both Dennis and Sacks played well under the backboard, although Dick Farley, sophomore Green center, was the key there...