Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politics. When West Virginia's overdressed, cadaverous Matthew Mansfield Neely quit the Senate to become Governor of the State last Jan. 12 at midnight, he exercised his new gubernatorial power to appoint as his successor his old friend Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of Fairmont State Teachers College. But Homer Adams Holt, who retired as Governor that same night, likewise claimed the right to make the appointment, naming his old friend Clarence Eugene Martin, ex-president of the American Bar Association...
Playing singles for the Crimson will be Jim Jenkins, Homer Peabody, Captain Sonny Lyell, Russ Ellis, Orme Wilson, and Aubrey Gould. Howie Ezell, who has played in every Varsity match this season, was beaten in a recent test match by Gould for the number six singles position...
Captain Sonny Lyell, playing number two singles in place of exam-ridden Homer Peabody, easily defeated gigantic Henry Loeb in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, while Russ Ellis, having ben moved up from number four, beat Bill Clark 6-0, 6-3 in the next singles contest...
Only footballer Cleo O'Donnell was able to garner more than one hit off fast-ball artist Bill Bowler for the school-boys, but Brooks Heath touched him for a homer in the first with two on to start the show, and Paul Butler snapped his ten-game batting slump with a triple...
Harvard's first six men who will play singles will be Jim Jenkins, Captain Sonny Lyell, Orme Wilson, Russ Ellis, Aubrey Gould and Howie Ezell. Homer Peabody, a regular singles player, cannot make the trip because of an exam. Don Daniels, Keith Symon, and Jack Clarke will probably see action in the doubles...