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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the unchallenging calibre of the opposition, tomorrow's regatta should be an exciting event, as it provides the last opportunity to see what may become one of the finest Crimson heavyweight crews...
...Wadsworth pitched his finest game of the year and former J.V. outfielder Dave Shima delivered three important hits in five trips to the plate, as the Crimson baseball team defeated Boston College, 6 to 1, yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...large portion of the credit for this Crimson victory must go, unfortunately, to the adverse weather which prevailed throughout the game. A high wind was blowing at most times and the temperature was a wintry 40 degrees. B.C. pitcher George Giersch, perhaps the finest hurler in the Greater Boston League is primarily a slow ball, control pitcher, and he just could not keep the fine edge on his pitches under such conditions...
Most of the experienced players have also surpassed pre-season expectations. Co-captain Pete Sieglaff, a second-string midfielder at Deerfield, has developed into one of the finest players Yardling teams have had in many seasons. Grady Watts, the other co-captain, is the team's leading scorer with more than 20 goals in the five games he has played...
...breathless story of men in peril. Dominating all is Shackleton, the incredible leader, the fool-hero who never surrendered. Shackleton was dead within six years, felled by a heart attack at 48, as he mounted yet another assault on Antarctica. It may have been just as well. His finest hour as an explorer was when he brought the battered Trans-Antarctic Expedition back to civilization and proudly wrote to his wife: "Not a life lost, and we have been through Hell...