Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last engagements, the injury and probation-ridden Stahlmen should, however, prove a considerable obstacle for Coach Jack Barry's charges. Brightest light of the season is the pitching of Burgy Ayres, who, with Captain Tom Healey nursing a sore arm, has borne the main brunt of the mound work...
...Travelers, a roving division of the Kansas City Monarchs which, like the white and bearded House of David baseballers, barnstorms, taking on all comers. Last week Monarch's Travelers played the Mobile Black Shippers. Satchel unlimbered his fearful right arm, planted his size 12's on the mound, blazed away for three innings. He faced only eleven batters, pitched only nine balls, fanned four, yielded one measly scratch hit. It was a typical Paige show and the dusky customers loved it. His team won easily...
Harrison, one of the league's best pitchers and an outfielder when he is not on the mound, has been at bat 30 times and has 12 blows, all singles. He will undoubtedly see action in his team's remaining games, against Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard twice. One other player may still be in the race: Princeton's Brooks Jones, who has an average of .426 in eight games. But with one more game to play Jones has not had 30 at bats, a requisite of the race...
Lanky right-hander Burgy Ayres will get the call to start on the mound for the home-guard while hurler Ed Barry should go the route for the New England College champions. Coach Stahl's forces will be at full strength except for Captain Tom Healey. A sore flinging arm will keep him from his regular job on the slope and from his auxiliary role in the vacant right field spot. As a result either Lee Hartstone or Bill Parsons will take over in the outer reaches...
...Fulton's backstop post will be handled by Bob Regan while Sophomores Oscar Haussermann and Bill Parsons will take over in place of Gil Whittemore and Lee Hartstone at third base and right field respectively. Burgy Ayres or Lou Clay will get the call to start on the mound facing Ed Barry and Charlie Foster, Northeastern's ace chuckers...