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Setting up screens and working the ball well, the Crimson rallied in the third period to tie the score at nine-all. Kilkowski. Jim Anderson, and Charley Ames scored the goals that knotted the game going into the final period...
...Harvard surge late in the game -- goals by Timberlake and Charley Ames -- was too little too late, as the Crimson stickmen couldn't recover from their third quarter letdown in time to pull off the victory...
Five months later, Joseph Douglas and William Mosher, a couple of smalltime burglars, were shot while robbing a house on Long Island. As Douglas lay dying, he told a witness: "It's no use lying now. Mosher and I stole Charley Ross." Where was the boy? "Mosher knows," replied Douglas. "Ask him." But Mosher was dead. "Then God help his poor wife and family," said Douglas...
...next 60 years or so, the hunt for Charley Ross continued all over the country, while young boys, then mature men, then greying old folks-5,000 people in all-turned up to claim the honor. But none of them proved it, and to this day nobody, the author included, knows what happened to Charley. He has either gone the way of Judge Crater, or, at 96, is alive and well in Argentina...
Munro has shifted midfields during the past week, beefing up the first line with Al Timberlake replacing Tom Nicosia. Timberlake will play alongside Marty Cain and Jim Kilkowski, while Charley Ames and Tom Engel will be on the second line with Nicosia...