Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been survived by two sisters. One of them, a seamstress, thought she remembered where Bland had been buried and the number on his gravestone. Two months ago, after poking about among the headstones in Merion's old cemetery, Publisher Cooke found Bland's grave: a small mound covered with weeds and poison...
...Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only one man was out. Two runs would tie the score. But the Iowa farm boy, playing in his first All-Star game, ambled out to the mound as nonchalantly as if he were going to feed the chickens, took a quick look at the 63,000 faces staring at him from the packed stands in Yankee Stadium, took a quick look at the bases and then wound up-without even a nervous hitch at his trousers...
...campaign (1916-17). He describes two mutinies, devotes little space to actual fighting, writes mainly of personalities, is most effective on the salty subject of his fellow officers. General Piccolomini, lecturing to his staff on Coordination of Intellects, proved by irrefutable logic that a semicircular excavation on a nearby mound was a machine-gun emplacement. An adjutant major ventured to suggest that the general was wrong. "Oh. What is it, then?" sneered the general. "It's a latrine...
Veteran twirler Slim Curtiss in Coach Stahl's mound choice for tomorrow's till. In the first meeting of the two clubs, Curtiss stepped into the game in the second inning to relieve Art Johns and held the hard hitting Crusaders to but five hits and three runs in the remaining seven frames. Tom Healey went the full route against the Brown Bears Tuesday and will be ready for duty if Curtiss falters. Bob Fulton will behind the bat as usual...
...will be Lou Clay of the Crimson against famed Captain Ted Harrison of the Blue in what should be one of the best mound duels of the year. Harrison's unusual twirling ability gives the Elis a chance to do the unexpected and upset the Samborski juggernaut which has rolled over 16 diamond rivals in the current campaign...