Word: flinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Governali, erstwhile Columbia great and current Boston Yank highlight, put the Crimson defenders on their mettle for the second successive day as he demonstrated his famous passing technique in limitation (or surpassing) of Carl Leibert, Princeton flinger who passed the Brown backs silly in last Saturday's one sided encounter in New Jersey...
Foller, the fireball flinger of the Cleveland Indians--Newhouser, the calculating lefty from the Detroit Tigers, and Chandler, the New York Yankees cagey veteran, were expected to cast a nine-inning crimp in what the averages show to be slightly superior hitters from the National League
Wright, in winning his seventh victory of the campaign without a loss, established himself as the loop's top flinger, and his baffling combination of curves and fast balls had the Lowell batsmen off balance. The tall sailor, who pitched the C team to a pennant in softball last July, struck out 13 batters in a superlative pitching exhibition...
Coach Floyd Stahl's strategy in keeping his ace flinger Tom Healey out of the Cornell fracas on Friday and saving him for Penn back-fired as the encounter was washed out. When the Quakers do come to Soldiers Field, however, they will undoubtedly be short of pitching, having just met the Dartmouth Indians in another twin bill...
...Jumbos were under wraps as they ran through Lowell Textile on Wednesday, with ace flinger Al Hatch doing only a four inning stretch. He will be ready to extend his personal string of victories over Harvard tomorrow. Coach Nash has not been impressed with the hitting power his men pack and looks to the game tomorrow as the first test of the year...