Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backed by a small but enthusiastic crowd of onlookers, the Freshman baseball team triumphed over a strong Exeter outfit by a score of 3-1 on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. Dick Walsh held down the pitcher's mound for the 1937 outfit for eight innings and struck out six men. In the final inning of the game Tommy Bilodeau was called in to finish off the last man. There were two outs and a man on first and third; Bilodeau tossed two balls, and on the second, Barnicle, the batter, popped out to end the game...
...Harvard Junior Varsity nine will play the Brown Freshmen at Providence this afternoon. Coach Dolph Samborski has not yet decided whether to use Frank Wood or George Tittmann on the mound...
Last week, under like circumstances, Rockefeller Center became the butt for town wits and art critics. Installed early last month in the Center's plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin...
Paul deGive, hockey captain, Jayvee football quarterback and sensation of last year's pitching staff who amazed everybody by his twirling in the Yale game last spring is due to get the call on the mound today. If he hasn't hit his stride yet and seems to be getting in difficulty, Captain Loughlin will probably be sent in to relieve him. Ken Hayes substituted for Fitzpatrick at second base yesterday afternoon...
...Thundered approval as spectacled Premier Vyacheslav Michaelovich Molotov, after burrowing through his usual mound of statistics, emerged to say that the Second Five-Year Plan, now entering its second year, will "make life brighter and better for our people." Claiming that the production of Russia's heavy industries was upped 11% last year and that bumper crops had wiped out the grain shortage, Premier Molotov admitted that the meat shortage is still acute...