Word: flinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sparking the backfield, McNicol and Loring should share the spotlight Saturday. Both have proved themselves competent runners with McNicol looking very good on fakes and as a pass-flinger. It looks as if either Glass or Camp might develop into an adequate blocking back, but for the present, Goldthwaite is quite secure in the berth he has held since the opening game...
Sixth ranking hurler in the Eastern Intercollegiate League last year with four wins and three losses, Farber's southpaw slants may trouble the Crimson more today than they did last Friday when he yielded 13 safeties. With 43 victims to his credit, the Tiger flinger was second only to Yale's Mee Jubitz in the 1938 circuit strikeout rankings...
Hector Dowd is a fairly dependable Junior flinger, George Smith has good posibilities, and John Corny has pitched before. But that's about as far as it goes. Coach Coakley's starting nine, however, is not definitely decided, because wide-open fights are still being waged for several positions...
Veteran Slim Curtiss is slated for mound duty today as Floyd Stahl's heavy-hitting nine journeys over to Riverside to face the challenge of twice-vanquished Boston University and its ace flinger, Captain Bob Leahy...
...Crimson ace, who pitches right-handed and bats southpaw, let down the conquerors of Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and Swarthmore with seven knocks and scored one of the Harvard counters in person. Peterson, Penn flinger, permitted only seven Harvard blows, but they were opportune and gave complete satisfaction. A good indication of MacHale's effectiveness lies in the fact that, beginning in the third inning and continuing until the seventh, the Crimson fadeaway expert retired 14 consecutive batters...