Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a rainy spell wiping out all sports encounters during the past few days. Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine lay idle Wednesday while chief "Crash" Davis's Jayvees made a futile trip to Andover. Both games were cancelled without any future date set for delaying them, but they probably will be rescheduled later, declared Carroll F. Getchell, acting director of the Harvard Athletic Association, yesterday...
Opening its 1945 spring season, Coach Floyd Stahl's varsity nine set out against the Naval, Air Base at Quonset, R. I., only to come back beaten 15 to 3 by an older, bigger, and more experienced Quonset squad. Although 13 of the fliers' runs were earned, fanlty fielding acted as a lead weight on the pitching arm of Jack Wallace...
...come out much more successfully in spite of the 18 hits, many of them for extra bases, that rattled off the Quonset bats. Led by a centerfielder of ten years' professional experience, who banged out two homers and two doubles in his first four times at bat, the naval nine kept well out in front from the first inning...
After suffering its first loss Saturday, the nine will open its home season tomorrow against the same team. With Wallace again on the mound Stahl, favored by home grounds and a prospect of better weather, stands his best possible chance of beating the naval airmen...
...caves and radios were over, but high on a cliff facing the ocean at the northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...