Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a squash ball is dropped from a height of 100 inches on a steel plate, it will rebound 32 inches. This is true only when the temperature is at 70 degrees Faherenheit...
Nice under-the-backboard work by Ed Smith and John Rockwell was the strong point of the Tufts game, but the varsity often lacked the speed necessary to play Shepard-brand fast-break ball. Its shooting from the outside was also weak. Shepard has accordingly pushed fast Jim Gabler up to the guard spot in the starting lineup. Under Shepard's system there will be three guards and two centers...
Shepard expects Gabler to add speed both offensively and defensively, and he is also banking on Gabler's competent ball-handling and accurate shooting. Gabler will be teamed with sophomores Gerry Murphy and Bill Hickey on the back line. Hickey set up many plays against Tufts; and played more than 30 minutes...
Coach Vince Cronin's BU features a tall center, Marty Finnegan, and plays fast-break ball along Shepard's own lines. On the basis of previous work, the teams rate evenly: the Terriers easily beat MIT last Saturday, but Shepard's squad has trimmed the Engineers twice in preseason scrimmages. BU has a set-shot artist in captain Joe Sheehan, and guard Ken Rickson is also accurate from the outside...
...finale was Bill Veeck's greatest moment. He had conquered Cleveland and he was anxious to move on. All through 1949, while the team played indifferent ball, talk of the sale of the Indians bubbled on a back burner. Last week Veeck sold his Indians for an estimated $2,200,000 to a group of Cleveland businessmen headed by Insurance Executive Ellis Ryan. The sum was about $1,000,900 more than Veeck and his partners had paid for the club. Said Bill Veeck, when asked what major-league city he was planning to invade next...