Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight many a resident of Newport, fashionable Rhode Island resort town, saw something few landlubbers ever see: a white whale. All week the great mammal hung close to shore, often displayed a 25-ft. expanse of white back...
Coach Fred Mitchell of the Harvard nine has been indisposed for the last few days but is expected to direct the team from the bench today. Coach Janvrin, of the second University team, supervised the workout yesterday. Ticknor, who was absent from the Rhode Island lineup because of an examination, will be back in the game at left field. McGrath will play centerfield and Lupien, right field. The infield combination, as it played in the Rhode Island game will continue with Wood at first base. Captain Nugent on second base, Mays at shortstop, and Des Roches at third base...
...spite of a desperate ninth inning rally, Rhode Island State went down in defeat before the Harvard nine to the score of 5 to 4 with the tying run on third base in the last frame, yesterday at Soldiers Field. MacHale pitched for the Crimson until he got in trouble in the ninth with two men out, and was relieved by Devens who struck out the last batter and clinched the victory...
...getting a run across in the second inning. The visitors evened things up in the following frame and the score remained tied at one all until the sixth, when both teams tallied again. In the seventh Harvard forged ahead getting two more runs and scoring again in the eighth. Rhode Island tried hard in the ninth and succeeded in pushing two more men across the plate, but failed to tie the score...
...Bates athletic luminary, will pitch either one of his aces, Ackroyd or Goff, against the Crimson, with the emphasis on the former. Goff has won five and lost only one game and when he does not pitch guards the initial sack. Ackroyd is the first four letter man that Rhode Island State has ever had and besides is a versatile ball player. He has pitched, caught, and also alternated with Goff at first base this year...