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Stahl is probably better fortified in the battery positions than anywhere else, with Tom Healey and Charley Brackett heading the pitching staff, and Bob Fulton as number one backstop. Captain Healey, veteran fireball artist, should be ready for a bigger and better year then ever, and the supporting mound cast looks promising. Most of Charley Brackett's work last year consisted of relief chores, but the lanky Junior is slated to step into a regular assignment this spring...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Crimson Nine Hit Heavily by Graduation of Five Regulars | 1/31/1940 | See Source »

...Plan. A Supreme Allied Economic Council will parallel and backstop the efforts of the Supreme Allied War Council. It will be divided into six component executive committees, for joint action with respect to aviation, munitions & war materials, oil, food, shipping, economic warfare. Much collaboration is already afoot by Allied commissions in some of these fields. Importance of establishing a Supreme Economic Council is to insure that certain basic principles are observed all down the line. As announced last week, three of these principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Mouse & Lion | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Other lawn games: deck tennis, lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow cord instead of a net), penguin skittles (a complicated version of ninepins with wooden penguins to knock down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Lawn | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Bill Parsons is the regular backstop and another main cog in the Samborski nine. One of the two setbacks the Yardlings received came with Parsons and Ed Buckley absent from the lineup for a spring football game. Buckley holds down first base and bats in the cleanup spot. Soft-spoken Gil Whittemore is a dependable hot-corner custodian and little Jim Lynch from Bolmont High is on second. Bud Finegan is the regular shortstop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 Batters Flash More Power Than Any Yardling Nine Has for Three Years | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

Gridiron captain and center last fall Johnny Walker is backstop for the Scarlet and White outfit. Walker and third baseman Johnny "Yama" Quinn may provide puncherino for the Terrier lads...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: HARD-HITTING NINE TACKLES TERRIERS | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

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