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...last half of the ninth bob Fraser relieved Johnny Knowles who, in giving up six hits, turned in a neat job during the first eight innings on the mound for the Crimson. Fraser got the first man on a pop-up to the second baseman, but the second man up reached first on an error by John Coppinger at third...
...mound corps, greatly weakened by the graduation last fall of Jack Wallace, is currently headed by Johnny Knowles. The lean southpaw will be starting his third campaign for the Crimson, having spent the past two years carrying the Jayvees and turning in valuable relief jobs for the varsity on occasion. Other prospects for the pitching staff include Norm Wholley and Dick Morris, with several other candidates also in the running...
...members of the Future Teachers of America, who try to get their hands in by teaching at least one class every two weeks. They rarely get such a chance as Cleveland's flu gave them. Said Lincoln's principal: "Best relief pitchers ever sent to the mound...
Poky as ever, Bob Feller ambled out to the pitching mound, tugged up his pants in the old way, fired a fastball which was perhaps better than it used to be. After three pitches, his shirttail came out, just like old times...
After this precaution the King & Queen proceeded to the annual meeting of the Manx Tynwald, claimed by Manxmen to be the world's oldest parliament. Seated on a red, canopied throne atop a 20-foot mound, which Vikings had built a millennium ago, the royal visitors bravely heard 15 laws read to the assembled people in the nearly extinct Manx language (which their Majesties do not understand). They were given $1,000,000 to help defray the cost of the war. (Unlike the rest of Britain, the Isle of Man, which enjoys nominal home rule, remained at war with...