Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster's loss lay in its lack of reserve material. While Lowell had two full teams to draw from, the Funsters had to rely on their first string of eleven men. "Bucking Frank" Ferdinand and "Shifty Don" Coles stood out for the Funsters as they frequently cracked the Lowell defense, but when the chips were down, the Bell Boys proved too tough...
...Injury, after having kept out of Dick Harlow's hair for most of the season, struck a telling blow yesterday as both Gordy Lyle, first string wingback, and Dick Row, second string right guard, had to leave the field during a scrimmage between A and B teams...
Lyle, a 176-pound Junior who has become almost a fixture in the first string backfield, was the harder hit of the two as he received a painful leg injury and was carted off the field to the medical room. Row soon followed him after getting a blow on the head...
Coach Bill Clark's well-oiled Academy eleven kept up a continual string of offensive threats which kept the Yardlings back on their heels for most of the game. The losers never really threatened seriously to cross their opponents goal line, displaying a rather ragged offense...
...String Murders builds up to a hair-raising climax in which Gypsy herself is almost killed. The murky conclusion, in which the loose ends are matted rather than unraveled, shows the beginner's hand. But Agatha Christie herself could not have contrived the tag line of the book. After it is all solved, a haunting little G-string peddler remarks, "You know, me bein' in the G-string business. I was afraid the cops'd think I done it for the publicity...