Word: play
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered the great Walter Johnson 53 years ago. At high school Killebrew starred in football, basketball and baseball, was spotted as a promising native son by Idaho's laie Senator Herman Welker. At Welker's urging, a Washington scout traveled west in 1954 to watch the youngster play semipro ball in the Idaho-Oregon Border League. Killebrew promptly went 14-for-14 (five homers, four triples), belted one homer over a fence 435 ft. away. The tightfisted Senators unbuckled their bankroll, paid out $30,000, and Killebrew became Washington's first bonus player...
Next spring the team will play the University of North Carolina and Duke in its first spring trip of recent years...
Next year Graney will be captain of the team that expects to regain the Ivy League hockey crown for Harvard. Because of the very strong freshman team this season, sophomores probably will play in several key positions, with Graney perhaps the team's only senior...
Morse, team captain, has been consistly phenomenal in his defensive play and rates a fine chance to take senior Mouse Kasajian's shortstop slot. Drummey, too is a fancy fielder with a good arm and will probably be among the varsity regulars. Drummey, who batted .319, and Morse, batting .312, were one-two in the line-up this year...
Taking their inspiration from Edward Steichen's "Family of Man" and from Carl Sandburg's poetry, four attractive young people have produced a program of folk music that is different, refreshing, and exceedingly enjoyable. They sing, play guitars and banjos, pantomine, and experiment with lighting; and last Sunday's Boston audience, while small (only about 100), gave them an enthusiastic response...