Word: ninths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ninth mission, Chuck and his Glamourous Glennis of that day were shot down by three Messerschmitts over occupied France. After bailing out with a leg wound, he spotted an old Frenchman, chopping wood, who looked trustworthy. Chuck introduced himself in West Virginia English. The Frenchman put him in touch with the underground, which smuggled him by painful night marches over the Spanish border. Franco's Spaniards put Chuck and some pals in jail...
...Harvards down in order for the rest of the game, while striking out seven of them. BC, which had men on base in every inning after the third, scored again in the eighth on a double, a sacrifice, and an infield error. Herb Neal pitched the ninth for the losers and was adequate...
...Turner, p 2 0 0 1 4 0 Neal, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 *Essayan 1 0 0 0 0 0 **Mannino 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 1 2 27 12 2 *Grounded out for Turner in eighth **Struck out for Howe in ninth...
When Bill finally got to Ira Godin for two runs and won the game in the ninth, the people didn't mind too much. They had just watched the first good baseball game to be played on these fields in three years. Two good teams had taken turns hanging on to a series of one run advantages by combining excellent fielding and fine pitching. Harvard had played a full game with only a harmless error in the infield and without any of the gross errors of judgement which characterized much of last year's play...
There is one mortal weakness in the team now. When Godin, pitching his twenty-seventh inning in five days, began to tire in the ninth, Stuffy sent some fellows out to warm up. They were a mixed lot. Barry Turner throws lefthanded; Ralph Hymans and Herbie Neal, right. None of the trio, fresh, could have done better than Godin, tired. If one of them turns out to be a pitcher who can go six innings or more, the whole baseball prospect could quickly become bathed in a soft, rosy light...