Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were much in demand. Furious Fiorello La Guardia put a stop to that. The only mote in Johnny Dunn's sighting eye was Anthony Hintz, the hiring boss on Pier 51 at the Hudson River foot of Manhattan's Jane Street. Andy Hintz wouldn't play ball with the hoods and their following of thieves and payroll paddies. He sent up word to Johnny that he could go to hell, and so he was marked for killing...
...accident was caused by a flying squash ball which struck the basketball player squarely in the eye. Squash ball can travel as fast as 60 miles per hour. Murphy had decided to play a brief squash match before a late basketball practice session...
...Crimson showed life only in spurts, and it was this lack of sprit, plan the ability of an opponent well-versed in ball handling and able to control, the backboards, that brought on the downfall of Coach Bill Barclay's quintet...
Bill Prior, who swished them in from right and left in the pivot position, was high scorer for Harvard with 19 points. Bob Carlson led the victors with 21 points. Fighting Walt McCurdy, who at times seemed the only man from the Crimson able to follow the ball on the floor, hit the hoops for 12 points...
...burning up the courts for four seasons. One of them is blond, 5 ft. 10½ Ralph Beard, his gum-chewing "quarterback." A master dribbler and playmaker, Beard usually starts the play pattern, picking one of Kentucky's basic 20 (ten for each side of the court), featuring ball-handling and the inside-screen. The other two: 6 ft. 7 Alex Groza and 6 ft. 4 Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones, who do the heavy scoring up front. What rival coaches kept asking themselves: would they ever graduate...