Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon the team will go against the Boston Hellenics, with Sophomore Irv Rudman as Coach Stahl's mound choice. Ned Fitzgibbons will return to his centerfield post, in the hope that he will snap out of the slump which has affected his game so noticeably of late. Also scheduled are games with Fort Banks next Wednesday, and tentative dates with the Camp Devens team and the Lincoln Mohawks on Friday and Saturday. Either Joe Phelan or Moe Berg will hurl against the Fort Banks team...
...work of Mark Twain is America's literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...
Again Devens could not use its mound star, Walsh, as he was on duty at game time. With Lefty Davis nursing a sprained ankle the soldiers had to turn to a left-handed hurler named Morgan, who played in the outfield last time...
...mound Hoftyzer worked himself in and out of a series of awkward positions. He pitched four straight balls to the first batter to face him, and gave the next a single through third. A double play from Gallagher to Fitzgibbons quieted activities in the bullpen and saved the inning...
Bill Hoftyzer will probably start on the mound for the Crimson, but Jim Phelan is liable to see action before the day's hostilities are over. Only one change is expected in the starting Harvard lineup. Catcher Paul Delahoyde will be occupied with academic duties and unable to be ready for the "play ball." Sophomore Hoss Hamlen will thus get his break and crash into Varsity competition. Bill Barron, his competitor, has a broken finger that will keep him on the bench...