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...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...
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...
Only five Crimson regulars, Ed Buckley, Torby Macdonald, Freddy Keyes, Les Pitchford and Dick Merrill are available for the game. Captain Tom Healey will be unable to take the mound due to a sore muscle in his pitching appendage and several other key men are out of the lineup because of Military Science examinations...
...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...
...Phelan will start on the mound for the Samberskimen and Bob Axtell will receive. Art Scully, shortstop, Jack (Poech) Haley, centerfielder, and Bart Harvey, second-sacker, are the team's leading batters...