Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Days. In Blytheville, Ark., the city council decided to crack down on unlicensed dogs, hired a dogcatcher, who could not work until a pound was built, erected a portable pound without having a location for it, no sooner parked the pound behind the City Hall than the dog-catcher quit, hired a new dogcatcher who snagged five dogs which could not be tagged because the city clerk ran out of licenses...
...Crimson pitchers, the last two of whom serve regularly as a third string catcher and a shortstop, were like picket fences against a landslide yesterday afternoon, as Yale trampled Harvard, 22 to 8, before 5,500 disappointed alumni and guests...
Immediately after the "contest," catcher Charles Sarto Walsh, Jr. of West Medford was elected captain of the varsity nine for the 1952 season. Third baseman Kevin Patrick Reilly of West Roxbury and Adams House received the Wingate Trophy as the team's most valuable player, while center fielder Edward Nixon Foynes of Quincy and Dudley Hall won the Wendell Bat, emblem of Harvard batting supremacy...
...hits to Harvard's 12, but the six men on the mound for the Crimson collectively gave up 12 walks and hit four Eli batters. Stuffy McInnis went through his entire staff, except for Rufe Webb, who pitched Tuesday against Princeton. Then the coach was forced to throw in catcher Bill Fitzpatrick, who has pitched only school and legion ball, and finally to pull Captain Johnny White in from the shortstop position...
Yale is good in the field, but its batting power has been considerably weakened by accidents and young love. Eddie McHugh, fifth leading batter in the league behind Harvard's Ed Foynes, has been having trouble recently with a knee injured in basketball, first-string catcher Mike Chasanoff was spiked in the Princeton game, and Dick Cook is getting married. These three, Yale's top batsmen, should see limited, if any, action today...