Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facing a former Louisville game, both Bill Cleary and Don Butters Colonel pitcher in the opening Fort Lee collected two hits, while Rossano, pitching a single hit and two runs. Henry Hamel took over in the fifth, and allowed three runs on three hits, but Fitzgibbons, who took the mound in the seventh, yielded only one safety, and gave up no runs...
...Crimson batters couldn't compensate for mound wildness against Quantico, for Roger Osenbaugh, ex-Stanford and Sacramento Senator mound ace, was the Marine starter. Meanwhile, Crimson starter John Arnold walked the first four men to face him, and was followed by three relievers, Fitzgibbons, Ned Felton, and John Cooke. Only Felton could hold the winners, and he tired in the seventh...
Other possibilities for the permanent pitching roster include John Cooke, Jim Fitzgibbons, Ned Felton, and Bill Chauncey. Chauncey may alternate between the mound and the outfield, where he won his letter last season...
John Synge (of London's Sotheby & Co., the Egyptian government's appraisers), who spent eleven months evaluating Farouk's mound of gimmicks, had wound up making an amateur's psychoanalysis of the King himself, whom he had never met. "Farouk had an absolute passion for completion," he said. "He loved costly little machines that would work. He preferred small objects he could carry and fondle. He was a child in many ways...
Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior Minister, the treasury as Finance Minister, and the nation's No.1 political party as secretary general of the Wafd...