Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, the veteran Bellboy team gathered itself and, led by sparkplug Goldie Goldsmith, began calmly and smoothly to overtake the fast-tiring and worried Kirkland five. The turning point came then Goldsmith stole the ball twice in succession and laid it up for scores. After that, Lowell turned on the pressure and won going away, Goldsmith getting points. It was the fifth straight victory for Lowell, and Kirkland's third less against two wins. Kirkland walked off with the B league game...
Northeastern administered a 71-52 drubbing four days later on December 9. Just before the Christmas vacation began the freshman squad journeyed to Hartford and played what was probably their best ball of the season to date beating Trinity 43-37. Then after vacation a Holy Cross team, superior in size and reserves snowed under the freshmen in Wednesday's game...
...hard to come by, he became a righthander. But he seemed to have little natural talent. Says Denny Lavender, West Point golf coach who grew up with Ben: "He didn't do one thing right. He couldn't putt. As a kid he practically ran at the ball...
...quick to note the prevailing temper and character of the towns he visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass for a pennance, for the generality...
...lead was momentarily overhauled at 41-41 with four minutes left in the game, but Ashbaugh's hook shots and Chollet's layups sealed the contest as the Crimson futilely tried to get and keep control of the ball. HARVARD (42) g f p Rockwell, lf 1 3 5 Smith 3 2 8 Bramhall 3 0 6 Petrillo, rf 1 0 2 Gabler 2 1 5 Prior, c 2 0 4 Covey, lg 1 0 2 McCurdy 2 1 5 Gannon, rg 2 1 5 Totals...