Word: despard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 16-In a despard attempt to slip under tomorrow's deadline for the 25-player limit the Mt. Auburn Clowns last night sent 23 1/2 players to the Wingashee Beach-combers of the Coast League in return for veteran 92-year-old manger Cornelius "Connie" Mack-U, who has come out of retirement for today's titanic tiff with D. C. D. Rogers Hahnsby's Rampaging Red-Eds. With only nine players left on his squad, Mack-U still voiced confidence last night. "We'll be like the old Gag-House Gang," he gurgled gleefully, "with such...
Dugald Fletcher captains and strokes Eliot with Dick Almy, 7; Tom Adams, 6; George Walcott, 5; Clem Despard, 4; George Ames, 3; Ned Davis, 2; and Club Morgan, bow. Dick Mann coxes the boat...
Eliot has turned in the best time of the season so far over the mile and has been bolstered since the last race by the addition of Clem Despard and Rupe Maynard both only recently demoted from the varsity. The Elephants have lost to Kirkland besides Winthrop...
Jack Avis, John Atherton, Bill Bliss, Link Boyden, Ed Brainard, Larry Brownell, Warren Clark, Clem Despard, Phil DuBois, Dugald Fletcher, Bill Geertsema, George Gifford, Monty Goodale, Tom Hagoort, Lee Henderson, Charley Higginson, Frank Huntington, Ben Jeffries, George Kinnel, Lefty Leftkowitz, and Steve Lincoln...
Fred Moseley rowed in the seven seat of the winning boat, with Link Boyden at six, George Walcott five, Clem Despard four, Nick Brown three, Lee Henderson two, John McLeod bow, and Al Lefkowits cox. Reuben Richards' boat came in second in 4:03, with Larry Brownell's eight third three seconds later. Bob Terry's boat was fourth and Tom Adams' last...