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Idol of these happy fans is Catcher Josh (for Joshua) Gibson, a hulking 215-pounder with features vaguely suggestive of a very dark Babe Ruth. Sportswriters like Shirley Povich of the Washington Post maintain that Josh Gibson would be worth his weight in gold to any white ball club. The immortal Walter Johnson once valued Gibson...
...sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely and billowing smoke obscured it. A cargo ship...
...will be hard pressed by some top-notch Exeter timber-toppers. Wille Fisher, the other half of Mikkola's point-winning due, is a cinch to triumph in the hammer-throw, although he will be tossing a 16 pound weight while the prep school slingers will use a 12 pounder. If he gets into trouble, however, Wille plans to make his final throw with the lighter pellet...
Dignity and Destruction. The Gun, a 13-foot 18-pounder abandoned by retreating Spanish regulars, fell into a few weeks' frenzied and ingenious service at the hands of Spanish mountaineers. More properly, the mountainers served the gun: its dignity and its power coalesced half-hearted and wrangling bandits into an army which swelled from two to ten thousand. This armv's third leader, a mountain boy, destroyed a crack French regiment with the gun. He was nudging to pieces a fortress wall ten feet thick when another 18-pounder put an end to the gun and thawed...
Pete Fuller, 165 pounder, advanced as far as the semi finals. In his consolation match, he defeated Ross B. Frair of Cornell by a decision, 7 to 0. In his second place match, however, he was defeated by John Stockbridge of Lehigh...